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Youth Employment Group in UK – The government should implement an ‘Opportunity Guarantee’
Final recommendations from the Youth Employment Group (YEG) Prior to the onset of the COVID-19 crisis, there were already 760,000 young people not in education or employment in the UK. The Institute for Fiscal Studies has recently shown that young people are 2.5 times more likely to be working in the sectors most affected by … Continue reading
Teleworking – Policy options
Prior to the COVID-19 outbreak, teleworking used to be treated chiefly as a matter of opportunity to improve employee’s work-life balance. Suddenly, the pandemic turned it into an urgent solution to reduce the risk of contagion and ensure economic continuity. The practice has spread from an occasional option mainly concentrated in a few countries, and … Continue reading
International Students in Canada – They accounted for all of the growth in postsecondary enrolments in 2018/2019
Student enrolments in Canadian public universities and colleges rose for the fourth consecutive academic year in 2018/2019, driven solely by higher enrolments by international students. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, postsecondary students experienced significant changes to their educational instruction, with most students learning remotely at the end of the 2019/2020 academic period and … Continue reading
COVID – Two-thirds of company leaders say their organizational cultures currently place a high or very high value on learning
In a new survey, leaders say the pandemic has alerted them to the urgency of getting learning programs right. Yet companies are falling short in delivering outcomes, and executives can do more to support capability-building efforts. Across the globe, company leaders report that the value of capability building has increased dramatically since the start of … Continue reading
Employer Skills Survey (ESS) in UK – Three-fifths (61%) of employers had funded or arranged training
The Employer Skills Survey (ESS) has run biennially since 2011, providing a vital source of intelligence on the skills issues employers face. ESS traditionally has an inward- looking focus assessing the current skills position and skills needs of employers. It has sat alongside the Employer Perspectives Survey, which is primarily outward-looking, covering provision of and … Continue reading
Remote Work in Nine Countries – The potential for remote work is highly concentrated
The future of remote work is likely to be hybrid in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, mostly for a highly educated, well paid minority of the workforce. Building on the McKinsey Global Institute’s body of work on automation, AI, and the future of work, we extend our models to consider where work is performed.1 … Continue reading
Covid in Toronto – About 30% are struggling to pay essentials, like rent, food, and utilities
The Toronto Fallout Report captures seven months in the life of the COVID-19 pandemic in our city. This report applies an equity lens to data, issues and the analysis of the research. It documents the disproportionate impacts of COVID-19 on marginalized populations and the organizations that serve them. At the same time, it surfaces the … Continue reading
Covid and Self-Employed in UK – 58 per cent reporting having less work than usual in August
Six months after Covid-19 first hit, it is clear that it is the greatest economic crisis of the modern age. The economy has contracted far more rapidly than in previous crises, with GDP dropping by a record 19.5 per cent in April, and despite four subsequent consecutive monthly increases since then, remaining 9.2 per cent … Continue reading
Automation in Canada – More than 10 percent of Canadian workers face a high risk of seeing their jobs transformed through automation
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed a new vulnerability among firms that rely on human labour. In order to comply with public health directives on physical distancing, many businesses have had to completely shut down their operations for months. Others remained functional thanks to teleworking, which many intend to prolong and even adopt permanently. As experts … Continue reading
Training and Certification – The case of accountants and financial professionals working in business
How can an organization ensure that its finance and accounting (F&A) staff has the essential skills? This report, based on a global survey of 1,032 IMA members, provides valuable insights regarding the impact of technological change on the finance function, the importance of training in the digital age, and how to build the business case … Continue reading
Matching Skills Needs with Big Data – Multiple competing vendors, covering a range of countries with different languages, providing services commercially to universities and employers
In dynamic and rapidly changing labour markets, the identification of skills needs is an important challenge. Imbalances on the labour market, reflected by difficulties faced by businesses in sourcing the skills they need, high incidences of skills mismatch, and significant unemployment or underemployment especially among youth, are common to most countries, independently of their level … Continue reading
Covid and Limits on Movement and Public Gatherings – Making the realization of rights to freedom of association and collective bargaining more difficult ILO says
Fundamental principles and rights at work can play a vital role in building effective, consensus-based responses that support recovery from the COVID-19 crisis and help build back a better, more just, world of work, a new International Labour Organization (ILO) paper says. However, the paper also warns that the crisis has placed these same freedoms … Continue reading
Covid and Jobs in UK – 9 per cent of those previously furloughed had lost their jobs
This report presents new evidence on the effects of the coronavirus crisis on workers. It uses the results of a new survey of 6,000 working-age adults to highlight which groups have struggled the most as the crisis has evolved, who is at risk as the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme is replaced by the Job Support … Continue reading
Work-Ready, Employable Grads in the Engineering and Technology Sector – The Cardiff National Software Academy (NSA)
Cardiff National Software Academy (NSA) was established in 2015 jointly by the University of Cardiff and the Welsh Government. The NSA was set up to address the skills shortages in the local technology sector, where local employers had expressed concern about the lack of graduates who were prepared with the skills to contribute sufficiently to … Continue reading
Covid, Work and Automation in UK – Industries with the highest level of furlough take-up are considerably more likely to be at risk
Covid-19 looks likely to create ‘a tsunami of job losses’. There are also signs the pandemic could rapidly accelerate the pace of technological change. This report explores how these forces could interact to fundamentally reshape the labour market. We set out a risk register that combines an analysis of the impacts of the pandemic on … Continue reading
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