The World of Work.

The World of Work

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Discuss how work define population within United Kingdom..............................................3
Changes to working practices over time in United Kingdom since industrial revolution......5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Work is defined as any acts that an individual perform in order to support certain
activities and complete them in appropriate time by attending the prescribed objectives. Basically
work is a concept which is aligned and integrated towards a certain aim. Work is a broad area
which includes a number of activities, actions and techniques. Along with it work can also be
defined as a chore which or infinite number of small tasks that involves small medium or long
term goals that is needed to be accomplished in the respective time by the respective individual
or group of people. The world of work is a little complicated which can affect people that is
population with social, physical and psychological aspects. The present assignment is a essay
that is reflecting on the different aspects and criteria's related to the world of work in context of
population and how it defines them. Along with it changes taking place in the work practices
since industrial revolution are also highlighted in context of United Kingdom.
MAIN BODY
Discuss how work define population within United Kingdom.
Work population is referred and defined as a population or people involved in specified
occupation and indulge in a professional setting with the motive of earning their livelihood and
contributing there path towards the society. Work population are those individuals who are
employed by a company or a professional body with the motive of completing their objectives
and aims within the prescribed time and gender the society exactly the same of they are
expecting from the business.
Work can be defined in several terms which also changes the definition and
understanding of working population. There are several number of people involved in different
activities and practices which are considered by them as work and helpful for them to earn their
livelihoods. Work defines people by train number of them I am willing to and are eligible to
perform certain task and different activities. In United Kingdom people who are around the age
of 15 are considered as individuals who are efficient to work.
Working population is defined in separate manners in different circumstances and by
different administrations. In a academic context work population is defined as a bunch of people
that are engaged in physical labour and earn their livelihoods or wages on the basis of

completion of the given tasks. In United Kingdom those individuals who are highly educated and
are professors are known as a working class.
In United Kingdom defines people according to their skill sets and categorise them into
different segments. Hence, work defines individuals as skilled or unskilled people where those
who have theoretical and technical knowledge of certain topics belonging to their respective
fields are known as skilled individuals. These skilled people earn huge amount of salaries on the
basis of their skills, capabilities and proficiency. On the other hand the second category of
working people is of unskilled employees. These are those who earn their livelihood on regular
basis and are paid in wages rather than salaries.
Skilled and unskilled people are one type of segmentation of the working population in
United Kingdom. But these individuals can also be segmented on some other bases that is
dependent upon their employment contact. According to employment contract basis work defines
people and their job roles according to the particular time period they are working for and within
the organisation.
The first form is full time worker, an individual who is working an average of 40 hours
each week for the company and are entitled to get paid leaves including annual leave and sick
leaves are defined as full time employees. The part time workers are those who you work less
than 40 hours per week and can become permanent employee of the organisation. The third form
of individuals by which work defines them are casual workers for employees.
This type of employees do not have any guaranteed work hours and most commonly
render their services and specialities by irregular hours off work. Also the casual worker do not
receive any paid leave or annual or sick leave. Moreover they are also having the benefit of
ending the employment without any further notice, antenna unless a notice is required from the
employer and the employee whoever the party is willing to break the contract according to the
registered agreement.
The casual workers and full time workers and even part time workers are different from
one another as other than casual workers both of the parties have ongoing employment and fixed
term contract with the organisation as well as they have any expectation to work regular hours
every week for which they are being paid appropriate amount of salaries.
The next form in which work define people in United Kingdom is shift workers. These
are those individuals who to work under different shapes and gets paid extra when their work

exceeds their shift hours. Another form of worker defined are daily hire employees who are
similar with full and part-time workers. The daily hire employees are entitled to get and give one
day notice before ending their employment. Over in case of hiring a daily hire employee
employer have the responsibility to tell employees in writing that they are employed as weekly
for daily hire for casual individuals for the organisation.
Another employment contract which is defined by work in United Kingdom is probation
employee. Hear the employers can put their employees on probation period which is also known
as probationary period to assess their skill sets and suitability for the assigned and vacant job role
in the business as well as for their organisation. The length of the probation period is defined or
decided by the employer themselves which can be ranging from few weeks to few months.
Amazon concern with probationary e employee is this is the process which can only be involved
and engaged in the beginning of the employment after that the employee can become the
permanent and full-time individual within the workforce of the respective company.
Some more common types of workers define by the working population definition in
United Kingdom are trannies, apprentices and outworkers. Traineeship and apprenticeship is a
form of formal training session and arrangement that combines work and study of a respective
qualification together for rendering both theoretical and practical understanding. The traineeships
allows the individual to study for a certificate qualification for working in a respective industry
and occupation. On the other hand apprenticeship is a working practice which allows the
individual to study for a trade qualification and requires around 3 to 4 years in order to attain the
highest level of skills required to work within the specific field.
How to workers are those contractors or employees who perform their work add a place
which is a comforting area for the customers and not for the employees. In simple world out
workers are those individuals who visit people and their customers for offering them the value
for which they have paid a huge amount of money. Most commonly out workers are founded in
textile, footwear and clothing industries.
Changes to working practices over time in United Kingdom since industrial revolution.
Industrial revolution in Britain began in the 18th century and spread to other parts of the
world which also involves United States. In the 18th century the first industrial revolution took
place from Britain where most of the industries and countries were affected through it. The
modern history means refers to the 18th century industrial revolution as the first one and

separate it from the second period of industrialisation which began in late 19th century and early
20th century.
The industrial revolution is an ongoing process at the time of fourth industrial revolution
it was highly driven by 4 specific technological developments that are high speed mobile
internet, artificial intelligence and automation, the use of big data analysis and cloud technology.
All these four aspects have the most significant impact on employment within the global work
force and more precisely in United Kingdom. Several studies have resulted and concluded that
around one fifth of the global workforce will be adopting and impacted buy artificial intelligence
and automation where the most specific impact will be on developed Nations like United
Kingdom.
The major changes which took place in context of working practices and environment in
United Kingdom while considering the industrial revolution factors is Introduction of remote
working, more emphasis being placed on employees relations, critical employment practices are
utilised and higher focus being placed on development of staff for organisational growth and
success.
The concept of remote working is the major impact which is caused by industrialisation
and industrial revolution. The fourth industrial revolution made addition of new roles and
responsibilities within the respective job roles. This led to more companies and Organisation
being concerned to employ specialists contractors and remote workers. The idea of remote
working was and also today is strongly supported by artificial intelligence, high speed data and
automation as well as data analysis. Due to new technologies and changing demands the
employers are becoming more and more supportive of existing employees with providing them
flexible working environment and workplace as well as working conditions.
The employers supports employees in order to work according to their comfort and
requirements right then meeting the certain formal practices. The remote working idea have
given the current employees and option to be more free while working and deciding their place
of work and time. the remote working practice enable the organisations in improving and
enhancing their productivity and efficiency which resulted in higher performances and results.
Along with it the organisations are also benefited by having a global workforce and
diverse skill sets in individuals by recruiting global employees. Moving along increasing
employee loyalty, improving employee retention ratio and the workforce commitment towards

their roles and jobs is another significant factor which added value to changing working
practices. According to several economist it was predicted that the fourth industrial revolution
will be affecting 50% of the job roles in relation to automation. This developed a change in
industries which most likely leads to changing work practices as now the practices will be
automated as the industry have changed to automation resources like robots.
With the increasing impact of industrial revolution it is clearly determined that in near
future there can be a possibility of changing work practice. This is because the industries and
Organisation can see a a significant reduction in the numbers of full-time staff in different job
roles as many of the positions will already be phased out with increased automation. Hence in
order to keep the economy balanced and maintain a certain level of synergy the working
practices of businesses and employees have to change in favour of both their business and the
workforce.
CONCLUSION
The above report is performed in an essay form and summarises the changes taking place
in work environment and work practices of employees within different industries and markets
due to industrial revolution and upliftment taking place within the work environment. In the
above sections of the essay the definition of working population is presented where different
workers that are defined by work in United Kingdom are presented. Moving along the impact of
industrial revolution is also considered on working practices of employees and businesses which
resulted in an impacted on changing techniques as well as ideas to make people work in in a
specified manner.

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