Click the video to watch award-winning thought leader and Founder and CEO, Workathon and Founder, The World Work Organisation, Julia Hobsbawm with Chair of Fellows, Radix Big Tent, Vicky Pryce at an interactive Radix Big Tent Meet the Leaders webinar recorded on Tuesday 25th March.
Their wide ranging discussion centred around Workathon’s new report, The United State of Work which unites and synthesises the latest trends, data and analysis globally on work and gives voice to key players in a way which is new to the market. How the world fares in work is both a granular and a grandiose question: at a granular level individual countries have their own specific issues – from the UK’s parlous problem with “economic inactivity” in its workforce and controversial changes to employer tax causing rows about jobs to Jordan being a little-known champion of flexible work and Indonesia being amongst countries taking advantage of the new tourism boom in Digital Nomad visas.
And at a grandiose level the impact of everything from climate, ageing populations, falling fertility, AI and geopolitics all pertain to how we work, uniting us all in challenge and opportunity.
Julia Hobsbawm is a writer, speaker, consultant and broadcaster about the past, present and future of work. Julia says: “Work unites us: each day 3.5 billion people work or are looking for work. Other than being born, dying, or searching daily on Google, more people work than they do anything else. What the world of work needs now is a new framework about how we govern, lead, and organise work. “From the economy to climate to geopolitics to AI and of course, people, workplace, and culture, everything connects to work. Yet work is all too often seen in fragmented contexts, addressed in single-issue silos. Policymakers, executives, and leaders risk missing vital patterns and progress to learn from and act upon. “2025 has echoes of 1945: A time of rebuild and re-imagination on a global scale is required around work and workplace issues. This is why, at Workathon, we’re setting up The World Work Organization (WWO) to encourage countries to invest in a single institution, which is dedicated to addressing work in all its complexity and which is above all human centric. We must unite around the challenges ahead in a totally different way to before.”
Vicky Pryce is the Chair of the Fellows at Radix Big Tent and a leading economist whose career includes being Director General for Economics at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), Joint Head of the UK Government Economic Service and Chief Economist and Partner at KPMG. She is currently Chief Economic Adviser at the Centre for Economics and Business Research. She is also Chair of the Economic Advisory Council for the British Chambers of Commerce and a visiting Professor at King’s College, London and Birmingham City University. In addition, she is co-founder of GoodCorporation, a company set up to advise on Corporate Social Responsibility.
