1. The Future of Work Work in a rapidly changing environment Jamie Cooke Head of RSA Scotland
@JamieACooke

2. The Future of Work The RSA Work Yesterday Work Today Work Tomorrow?
What If?
Questions

3. The RSA

4. Work Yesterday

5. Work Yesterday Work as fulfilment
An end in itself
Work as solution to social challenges
Work solves poverty, improves health, part of social contract
Work as reward and requirement
Mobility is fuelled through employment
Full employment to unemployment to redundancy

6. Work Today

7. Work Today Fulfilment lost. And gained?
Lowest wage growth in 150 years, but high levels of support for work
Half of workers stressed, quarter unhappy, quarter less freedom
Changing opportunities/Changing priorities
Less than 1 in 10 low paid workers have moved
The Social Contract
In work poverty
7 million households
Holiday hunger

8. Work is changing Purpose not profit Who needs a boss? Flexibility
Work with young entrepreneurs shows their focus on impact – do opportunities match this?
Who needs a boss?
Self-employment attractive as an option – half of all jobs created since the crash are self-employed
Flexibility
Money makes the world go round
How do young people pay the bills or get a mortgage?

9. Work Tomorrow

10. Work tomorrow Pace of Change Settled workforce? Vanishing jobs?
Decades to Years to Months…
Settled workforce?
Where do young people fit into an workforce living healthier for longer
Vanishing jobs?
Fragmenting job market
Brexit

11. What If? Automation – Rise of the Robots Artificial Intelligence
Basic Income
Fragmentation

12. Rise of the Robots

13. Automation What will happen to the jobs? Changes come, changes go…
Mass production in a world of individuality?
Opportunity as well as challenge?
Tax the robots?

14. Artificial Intelligence

15. Artificial Intelligence
Impact across society
‘Luddite’ responses?
Challenging conceptions of humanity/self/ethics
Would we accept an AI leader?
Driverless cars making ethical choices
Quis custodiet ipsos custodies
Do we actually understand the process in place?
Opportunities for revolutionary change to services

16. Basic Income

17. Basic Income Old idea, whose time has come?
Universal, unconditional, secure and individual
What does this mean for work?
Zero hours attractive?
Scotland as a test bed

18. Fragmentation

19. Fragmentation More change? Still only 3% Portfolio Careers
Are we developing young people (and established workers) for this?
Public perceptions, political pressure
If zero hours/gig jobs seen as bad, how can we explore possibilities?
Brexit is a huge challenge, possible opportunities too?

20. My challenge to you

21. My challenge to you You are the practitioners – we need your voice!
Lots going on about the future of work, but does it involve the professionals who oversee the functioning of work?
Chance for you to be agents of change…or significant barriers
What does your profession want to be in the 21st Century?
We have choices ahead – legitimacy must come first, reform second.
We can lead, or we can wait and hope to respond.

22. Jamie Cooke Jamie.cooke@rsa.org.uk @JamieACooke @theRSAScotland