Mutual understanding
This report from UK think tank the Social Market Foundation looks at the modern mutual sector and how to support it. This report by the Social Market Foundation provides a comprehensive overview of the modern mutual sector, exploring its key opportunities and challenges. Mutuals offer significant benefits, including economic benefits such being more resilient than...
Is trust an undervalued ingredient of a thriving economy?
This report from UK think tank the David Hume Institute looks at the role that trust can play in strengthening the economy. Labour market disputes, concerns about public contracts and declining trust in government and institutions have risen up the news agenda in recent times. All of these things impact on our economy but the...
Employer briefing: Financial wellbeing during the cost of living crisis
This report from UK think tank the Work Foundation looks at how the cost of living crisis is shaping the way employers approach financial wellbeing at work. This employer briefing draws on Work Foundation research exploring how the cost of living crisis is shaping the way employer approach financial wellbeing at work. Illustrating current practice...
Watching me, watching you
This report from UK think tank IPPR looks at worker surveillance in the UK after the pandemic. Worker surveillance is as old as work itself, but new technology is making it easier and cheaper than ever. Data suggests that workplace surveillance practices have hugely expanded during the pandemic and are here to stay – though...
Adapting the manufacturing sector for a brighter future
This report from UK think tank Civitas looks at new approaches to energy resilience among SMEs. In this latest Civitas publication, Dr Jim McConologue and Aaryaman Banerji look into energy resilience among SME manufacturers in the UK. The importance of SMEs within the manufacturing sector and across the UK economy should not be overlooked. There...
Insurance and the poverty premium
This report from UK think tank the Social Market Foundation looks at what drives the poverty premium in insurance. This report from the Social Market Foundation think-tank presents new evidence and analysis on experiences of the poverty premium in insurance market. Insurance can provide a vital form of resilience in times of financial strain, and,...
The forgotten medium
This report from UK think tank the Adam Smith Institute looks at helping mid-sized businesses to scale up. Focus is skewed towards both the smallest and largest companies in the UK, who benefit from support not offered to the “Forgotten Medium.” Scaling up MSBs would boost the UK’s growth prospects, in particular in areas of...
Learning from experience
This report from UK think tank the Social Market Foundation looks at how to make high quality work experience for all a reality. This report from Social Market Foundation think-tank provides a roadmap for rolling out high quality, universal work experience to students in England, in a way that is both equitable and does not...
Making the change
This report from UK think tank the Centre for Social Justice looks at a plan to reboot British manufacturing and restore growth. In this report, the Centre for Social Justice makes the case that it’s the comparative decline of British manufacturing that holds the key to Britain's productivity puzzle. While so much of our growth...
A year of uncertainty?
This report from UK think tank the Work Foundation looks at the Retained EU Law Bill 2022 and UK workers’ rights. New analysis from the Work Foundation at Lancaster University reveals that Government plans to rush the ‘sunsetting’ of EU laws by the end of 2023 will put the rights and protections of more than...