The Future of Work blogs and reports

The entrepreneurial audit

Report

09 Feb 2017

If the government is serious about improving the productivity, resilience and long-term financial success of the self-employed, then it must be more willing to intervene to set problems right.

Why government needs to get serious about self-employment

Blog

09 Feb 2017

Benedict Dellot

Our new report, The Entrepreneurial Audit, argues that paring back corporation tax and culling regulation are at best insufficient policy moves, and at worst damaging to the long-term interests of the business community.

The second age of small

Report

12 Jun 2015

Micro businesses are often painted as inefficient, lightweight and an overall drain on our economy. But our research finds that many are in fact thriving, boosted by new technologies, changing consumer habits and a pro-business policy agenda. So are we at the dawn of a ‘second age of small’?

The new digital learning age

Report

13 May 2015

In this major new policy report, the first in the Power to Create series, Anthony Painter and Louise Bamfield argue that major institutional change to work and learning is needed to promote ‘inclusive social mobility'.

Boosting the living standards of the self-employed

Report

26 Mar 2015

This new report examines how the living standards of the self-employed could be improved and touches upon issues such as earnings, savings, pensions, welfare and taxation.

Salvation in a Start-up?

Report

30 Apr 2014

Our report 'Salvation in a Start-up?' explores the factors behind the boom in self-employment and examines what life is really like for the growing numbers of people who now work for themselves.