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July 2018

• In a new report, the OECD said that positive employment trends are at risk of being overshadowed by “unprecedented” wage stagnation. While labour participation continues to rise and unemployment has reached record lows in some OECD countries, wage growth has been significantly more sluggish than before the global financial crisis. As at the end of 2017, wages growth in the OECD area was only half of what it was 10 years earlier.  Wage stagnation is also hitting low-paid earners particularly hard.

Please see below selected recent automation-related change,

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July 2018

• A new report from Capgemini's Digital Transformation Institute revealed that the financial services industry could expect to add up to $512bn to global revenues by 2020 through 'intelligent automation', the right combination of robotics process automation (RPA), artificial intelligence (AI), and business process optimisation applied cohesively to achieve business objectives.

Please see below selected recent purpose-related change.

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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.

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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.

Organisations thinking about impleenting a corporate social responsibility (CSR) programme, should consider the following issues:

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Should they have a CSR policy?

Imagine that it were possible to measure well-being...at both the personal and wider societal levels.

The Well-Being Agenda from The School of Life on Vimeo.

Please see below selected recent intelligence about money.

June 2016

• On a venture capital firm’s experiment with basic income. “Y Combinator’s pilot experiment will give about 100 families a minimum wage. The city was chosen for its social and economic diversity, alongside concentrated wealth and inequality—a good starting point for the US at large.