The workplace

We start our Visions of Britain 2020 series by looking at work and employment. This will be done through two reports, the first of which envisions what the workplace will look like a decade from now. Our findings indicate that the workplace will be starkly different to today. The changes will be structural and permanent, creating a workplace t…

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• A view from Friends Provident
• Foreword from the Future Foundation
• Executive Summary
• Debunking some myths
• The Elite and the Excluded
• Learn to Earn
• The 2020 Labour Cycle
• Conclusions

The workforce

In the second of our Visions of Britain 2020 reports we look at what the worker of 2020 could look like and how the working environment will need to adapt to meet the needs of these new emerging workers. Our findings identified a number of stark changes between the workforce of today and that of 2020. We looked at the workplace of the future th…

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• A view from Friends Provident
• Foreword from Future Foundation
• Executive summary
• The changing face of the workforce
• Flexible working is not the holy grail
• Rewarding work
• Productivity
• Conclusions

The end of retirement

In the fourth of our Visions of Britain 2020 reports we look at Ageing and Retirement in the UK and what this could be like at the end of the this decade. Much has been written on the ‘pensions crisis’ with many warnings of extremely difficult times ahead, not just for retirees, but for all us. We recognise that many challenges lie ahead but a…

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• Foreword from Friends Provident
• Executive Summary
• Introduction
• Optimum Retirement
• Devolving Decisions
• A New Contribution to Society
• Conclusions

Paying for the NHS

With societal and demographic changes coming into force during the next decade, we will examine the future of healthcare in Britain and explore how, or if, we will maintain a high-quality health service into 2020. The principal driver of change in healthcare over the next ten years will be our ageing society. In 2008, 22% of the population wer…

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• A view from Friends Provident
• Foreword from Future Foundation
• Executive Summary
• NHS - Fundamentally Different in 2020
• Individuals will have to take responsibility
• Unhealthy Behaviours will be Penalised
• Measure for Measure: Self-Diagnosis Comes of Age
• Conclusions

Coping classes

The financial crisis of 2008 and the severe recession that followed have scarred the UK’s financial psyche. Unemployment has risen. Earnings growth is modest. The housing market continues to stutter. An age of government austerity has descended. Meanwhile, the push of global commodity prices cuts thick slices off disposable incomes. In contrast …

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• Foreword from Friends Life
• Foreword from the Future Foundation
• Executive summary
• The Coping Classes: who are they?
• The Coping Classes: savings and debt
• The Coping Classes: general financial pressures
• The Coping Classes: generational and family pressures
• The Coping Classes: coping strategies
• Helping the Coping Classes
• The Coping Classes in 2020 – pen portraits
• Methodology

Working Women

In our second report of 2011 (the fifth in our Visions of Britain 2020 series) we examine the particular challenges being faced by working women. We look at whether recent initiatives by both the Government and the private sector to remove the glass ceiling have changed expectations among working women regarding future career opportunities and wor…

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• Foreward
• Executive Summary
• Savvy Sisters
• Thrifty Thirties
• Golden Generation

Pension Reform

Our sixth chapter in the Visions of Britain 2020 series focuses on pension reform and auto enrolment. Through this instalment we examine whether people should be taking more responsibility for their own financial welfare or if the government and / or employers should be doing more.

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• Foreword
• The Root Problem
• Crisis and Reforms
• The Solutions