The Post-Covid World Sees Innovation Spread It’s Wings
The Covid-19 pandemic has focused attention on the challenges facing society. These challenges require new forms of innovation to emerge, which will see new ecosystems propagating around the world
View ArticleHelping Bring World Leading Education To Refugees
Various initiatives have attempted to help refugees gain the skills and credentials required to enter the workforce in their new home, but lack of Internet access often holds them back. A new project...
View ArticleHow Automation Affects Labor Mobility
Technology and overseas competition both affect the domestic labor market in the United States, but they both affect labor mobility in very different ways. New research from Harvard explores.
View ArticleTurning Redundancy Into Entrepreneurship
The Covid-19 pandemic has made huge numbers of people unemployed. Several new programs are emerging to help these people enter the world of entrepreneurship.
View ArticleHow Skills Will Be Crucial As We Adapt To The Post-Covid World
New research from online learning company Coursera highlights the changing skills landscape as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, while also reminding us of the importance of skills development to...
View ArticleWhat Impact Will Covid-19 Have On The Movement Of People?
As the coronavirus pandemic has resulted in many borders being shut down to migrants, there is a temptation to keep those borders shut during the recovery. New research explores past events to see...
View ArticleAre People Keen To Get Back To Their Commute?
The commute has traditionally been a much maligned part of working life, but as Covid-19 has forcibly removed the commute for many of us, a new appreciation of its value is emerging
View ArticleWhy Control Over Boundaries Is Key To Successful Work-Life Balance
The coronavirus pandemic has forced huge swathes of the workforce to work remotely, but the intrusion of digital technologies and the surveillance of managers can backfire in terms of engagement and...
View ArticleInvesting In People Builds Resilience Against The Covid Recession
The recession following on from the Covid-19 pandemic is likely to be the biggest in 100 years. New research suggests certain
View ArticleHow Government Could Respond To The Future Of Work
AI, robotics and other technologies threaten to massively disrupt the nature of work. New research explores how government should respond to help citizens adapt to this future of work
View ArticleWhy Are Workers Getting A Smaller Piece Of The Economic Pie?
Economists have long blamed automation, outsourcing and global competition for the declining share of economic prosperity going to workers, but a new study from MIT suggests alternative factors are at...
View ArticleHow Corporates Can Best Engage With Startups
Many attempts to strike partnerships between startups and corporates fail. New research explores how these relationships can be successfully forged
View ArticleNew Research Suggests The Future Of Work Is A Flexible One
Flexible work has traditionally struggled for mass adoption in the workplace, but with so many of us working from home during Covid, and so many jobs capable of being done from home, are times changing?
View ArticleWhat It Might Mean If We All Work From Home?
Despite politicians urging people to return to the office, the indications are that this is unlikely to happen any time soon. What might this mean for how we live?
View ArticleWill The Remote Work Boom See A Rise In Digital Nomadism?
Travel during COVID-19 has plummeted, and this has placed digital nomads in a difficult situation. As remote working becomes mainstream, however, will digital nomadism become more popular when travel...
View ArticleGetting Fans Back Into Stadia During COVID
2020 was due to be a celebration of sport around the world, but instead tournaments have been canceled and matches played in front of empty stands. New technology aims to help get fans back into...
View ArticleManagerial Support Needed For Remote Working To Endure
New research suggests that as we return to a degree of normality, most of us will return to the office rather than working from home. Data suggests that managerial resistance is a major contributing...
View ArticleThe Mental Health Challenges For Workers During COVID
COVID-19 has caused widespread economic disruption, and this uncertainty is having a particular toll on the mental health of young people, who are particularly affected.
View ArticleTrust Is Key For Performance Management When Working Remotely
COVID-19 has seen remote working flourish, but this burgeoning remote workforce are challenging many of the norms of performance management. To adapt to this new landscape, managers will need to ensure...
View ArticleNew Study Predicts Gloomy Economic Times Ahead For Americans
At a time when evictions and mortgage defaults have been likened to an oncoming tsunami across America, a big-data study of loan-to-value ratios in the wake of the 2007-08 recession carries a...
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