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Studying digital work: Combining UK social survey data with O*Net

This Data Commentary examines how combining datasets can help researchers advance understanding of the effects of digital work.

Furloughing and COVID-19: assessing regulatory reform of the state

This article assesses regulatory reform of the state in the context of the move to furloughing in the UK. It establishes that furloughing was a successful response to the COVID-19 crisis, partly because it challenged the traditional UK crisis response of non-state intervention in the labour market. Furloughing prevented [...]

Disability, neurodivergence and remote working: what employers need to know…

Dr Christine Grant and colleagues outline four steps employers can take to develop truly inclusive remote working practices.

Employers’ responses to the end of free movement: the rhetoric and realities of automation

Chris Forde and colleagues consider whether automation offers a solution to post-Brexit migrant labour shortages as envisaged in some policy discourse.

‘They all know how to use their phones at home!’ Normalising and undervaluing digital skills in complex social care work

Kendra Briken and colleagues on how the acquisition of new digital skills by social carers goes unrecognised, undervalued and unrewarded by managers.

Automation and Well-Being: Bridging the Gap between Economics and Business Ethics

Some economists now predict that technology will eliminate many millions of jobs and lead to a future without work. Much debate focuses on the accuracy of such a prediction—whether, or at what rate, jobs will disappear. But there is a wider question raised by this prediction, namely the merits [...]

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