Work

Please see below selected recent wellbeing-related change.

August 2018

• Since 2012 The Boston Consulting Group  has used its proprietary diagnostic tool, Sustainable Economic Development Assessment, to produce a score that measures the relative well-being of countries and also relative scores for 10 dimensions. The 2018 report, Striking a Balance Between Well-Being and Growth: The 2018 Sustainable Economic Development Assessment, revealed that countries which lead in generating well-being for their citizens tended to post faster economic growth over the past decade.

Please see below selected recent work-related change. 

See also:

• Halcyon Work Headlines

August 2018

• In How to design a successful workspace, six senior executives told Raconteur how they designed their workspaces to improve processes, and foster employee creativity and happiness. (See also The Dynamic Workforce report.)

Please see below selected recent balance-related change.

See also: Halcyon Balance Headlines

Pre 2018

Please see below selected recent automation-related change,

See also: On Automation

July 2018

• A new Populus survey commissioned by the RSA suggested workers should be less alarmed about the prospect of losing their job to a machine, and more with how it will affect the way they go about their work. This includes how they are recruited, the degree to which they are monitored, and whether their jobs are orchestrated from above. Automation is a threat to some jobs, but not to work writ large. For all the talk of self-driving cars, checkout-less supermarkets and fully automated warehouses, machines are still constrained in what they can do. Moreover, they tend to eliminate tasks rather than whole jobs, and often expand the capabilities of workers.

Please see below selected recent purpose-related change.

See also: Halcyon Purpose Headlines

July 2018

• Many of us have a strong feeling that there is a job out there that could properly satisfy us, allowing us to develop our potential and talent, argues the School of Life. But we may remain troublingly vague about what exactly this ideal job might be - and what our talents and interests really are. We feel the clock ticking mercilessly, and are always under pressure to earn money and secure status. We tend to suffer this dilemma in private, feel ashamed of doing so, and wonder whether progress can ever be made.

June 2018

According to the World Bank, more people now live inside this circle than outside of it - see @WorldBank pic.twitter.com/iN1gDHaFiV.

Please see below selected recent intelligence about talent.

See also: Halcyon Talent Headlines

June 2016

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In the distant future, no one needs to work. Energy is available wherever people can set up a solar panel, windmill, or hydro-turbine. Artificial Intelligence (AI) units, distant descendants of today’s 3D printers, are capable of producing anything a person can program into them. Just by asking, anyone can have anything they want. People trade energy credits or donate energy to projects that interest them.

See for example HBR on "Computers Create Jobs and Inequality at the Same Time".

This is the post-labour economy imagined by today’s sci-fi writers. Indeed, science fiction has been speculating on what post-labour economies might look like for more than 100 years, In a post-labour economy, people don’t need to work in order to live or access goods. In fact, work has nothing to do with wealth or value.