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And with the shift in work back to the UK come much-needed new jobs, at a time when youth unemployment running at around 20%.
Zero-hours contracts are just the visible part of a huge shift in work practices, as the traditional job-for-life makes way for a casualised, freelance workforce facing vast international competitive pressure.
The dramatic shift in work — away from the tradition of a 40-hour workweek and toward individuals' building of "bodies of work" (and maybe companies?) with lifestyles to match — is happening because of the pressure on organizations to innovate and increase productivity, but also because of the increasing preference of people to work for themselves.
"Using foresight to prepare for the shift in the future of work" section provides examples of how the OECD is using Strategic Foresight approaches to enable flexible framing of the new threats and opportunities of the shift in work and to support more open and inclusive policy conversations about necessary changes in structural policies.
In the absence of any predictive theory of evolution, strategic and other foresight methods offer a pragmatic toolkit that can be used to navigate the messy multidimensional shift in work and avoid the trap of framing the future in terms of the repetition of history, conventional wisdom, and solutions that worked in the past.
At fault is not just a broken education system but how conversations about it have been divorced from a big shift in work culture.
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The greatest change has been the shift in work-life balance.
The rapid advances in technology in recent years have produced the greatest shift in working culture since the industrial age.
However, Greig said that the shift in working patterns would allow the remaining staff to "be human again".
But this ostensibly modest "refresh" reflects a huge shift in working practices, which a memo sent out before the summer holidays described as "completing the digital newsroom".
The shift in working patterns, which also marks Trinity Mirror's latest move closer towards fully integrating staff across all three titles, is likely to yield multimillion-pound savings.
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