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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 that will offer opportunity to many but not all. The 2020 workplace will be defined by a polarisation of jobs that has created two groups – the elite and the excluded. The elite, a growing band of well-educated workers will strive to improve their skills and will enjoy more power and a way of working that seems alien to us today. On the other side of the polarised workforce will be the excluded - an apathetic group, mostly young males, with few skills and little hope. How these changes affect the way we work, they way we train and the way business itself functions are addressed in this, the first of our Visions of Britain 2020.
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CHAPTER 1
A view from Friends Provident
A word from Trevor Matthews, CEO, Friends Provident.
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CHAPTER 2
Foreword from the Future Foundation
A word from Barry Clark, author of Visions of Britain 2020.
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CHAPTER 3
Executive Summary
An introduction to the first report in the Visions of Britain 2020 series, and a summary of the main findings.
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CHAPTER 4
Debunking some myths
A number of myths continue to cloud our view of the workplace.
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CHAPTER 5
The Elite and the Excluded
The 2020 workplace will have polarised into two groups - a growing elite of well-educated workers who will strive to improve their skills and a struggling group with few skills and little hope.
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CHAPTER 6
Learn to Earn
Through providing training employers will have power over their workforce. The rising cost of training means that employees will have to give something in return – loyalty and even financial contributions.
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CHAPTER 7
The 2020 Labour Cycle
Opportunities for UK businesses to attract skilled overseas workers will decrease as emerging markets fully develop to offer home grown talent fantastic local opportunities and prospects.
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CHAPTER 8
Conclusions
There’s really one key driver behind the five major changes that the report describes: the management of the scarce resource of skills and knowledge.
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Research Papers
- Pension Reform
- Working Women
- Coping classes
- Health & wellbeing
- Ageing & retirement
- Employment
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