Digital Jobs

-Understand what is meant by digital jobs

-contextualise the labour market 

-define a strategy for working in the future of work 

CI Headlines

-Pre covid: CI contributed 

-September 2020: 2.2million jobs in the UK

-Self employment: 32% of CI

-2019: 95% Companies are a micro-business

-1 in 8 of all business's are part of CI 

Velocity of technology

-the only certainty about working the future is that technology will continue to dominate

-a while ago people chose one career path, nowadays people choose a wider career path and have more jobs in a lifetime

Trends in employment 

-Covid presented remote data workers with a unique lifehack

-it is called overemployment

employees hold down 2 or 3 full time jobs at a time 

Benefits: money 

Limitations: could get caught, overworking, burnout hazard

Gig economy, zero hour contracts, AI in recruitment, pay transparency

The past

-Henry Ford created the 40 hour work week as he payed $5 an hour for eight hours, this made him the richest man in the world after selling his Model T 

-Pre pandemic, all companies adhered to the 40 hour work week even though our technical infustructure was evolving

-Benefits of office / 40 hour week: face to face interaction for managers, communication richness for staff 

-Limits of 40 hour week: Not as effective in a knowledge economy- commute, so many people unemployed/ business fail.

The present 

-a new normal - hybrid work

-some companies back to office, some ditch the office altogether 

-question about employee efficiency 

-question about the five day work week

-how can we find the balance in our work and home lives

-"The great resignation"; "Quiet quitting" / Triggered by the pandemic / people wanted to live different lives. 

Social capital refers to currency of your own social worth/ for example LinkedIn or Indeed