Our ground-breaking inquiry examines the impacts of automation on the labour market, who is benefiting and who is being hit hardest by the disruption caused.

Through a new social and economic paradigm of good work, it proposes a new model of human-centred automation, a comprehensive socio-technical approach that understands technological transformation as highly interconnected, and interdependent with socio-economic change.

The United Kingdom’s labour market currently faces multiple challenges including low productivity, unfilled job posts, low workforce engagement, and deteriorating mental health in the working-age population.

This paper by Magdalena Soffia, Matthew Hall and Jolene Skordis explores how the Capability Approach—a framework assessing progress based on individuals’ opportunities to lead fulfilling lives— may offer insight into the causes of these challenges.

This paper by James Hayton provides a review of research on technology adoption, and its impact on work and workers. It summarises key strands of evidence about technology adoption, from the diffusion of innovations paradigm, rational choice models of technology adoption, the sociotechnical systems perspective, and the social construction of technology perspective. It then concludes with a description of the next phase of the research project within the Pissarides Review into the Future of Work and Wellbeing, which builds from this evidence.