Work and Life in a Global Society

Running head: WORK IN A GLOBAL SOCIETY
Work in a Global Society
Topic: How has the changing nature of work and labour markets impacted on the lives of
workers?
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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Work-life balance of employees......................................................................................................2
Technological Change and the Future of Work...............................................................................4
Jobs and Skills for the Future..........................................................................................................5
Socially Responsible Management and Workers Rights.................................................................6
Introduction to gig economy............................................................................................................7
Flexibility in working hours............................................................................................................9
The Globalisation of Labour: The Migrant Experience..................................................................9
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................10
Questionnaire.................................................................................................................................11
Reference List................................................................................................................................14

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Introduction
With the advancement of time, technological changes affect the styles of employment,
productivity and income inequality in the labour markets. This also creates opportunities to
change the nature of works. Nature of work changes with time and division of labour market is
also changing. Occupation, flexibility, dynamism, demographics and the place of working have
been changing. These things continuously impact on employees and the training and needs and
skills are changing. In order to conduct the report, interviews have been conducting for collecting
the primary first-hand data. In order to conduct the interviews, the questionnaire has been made
through preparing 10 questions that are open-ended. Moreover, interviews have been conducted
to the friends and families or group and face-to-face interviews have been conducted The
purpose of data is to highlight the changing nature of work and changes in the labour market that
impact on the lives of workers. The key terms of the report are flexibility of working,
introduction of gig economy, technological changes, work-life balance and job and skills of the
future. This report is partially based on the secondary websites, journal and article sources and
throughout the report; secondary sources will be compared with primary data that have been
collected through interviews. In the following section, the impact of workers on changing nature
of the work and changing characteristics of the labour market will be discussed segregating the
topic.
Work-life balance of employees
Work-life balance is very important for the employees who have been associated with the
labour market. In recent time, most of the employees work with computer system and this kind
of digital stress impact the employees. Work-life balance concept emphasises on ‘work’ that is

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connected to ambition or career of the employees, whereas, life is related to the recreation and
emotional ideas of leisure, family and health (Grint & Woolgar, 2013, p. 45). Many critiques
have evaluated the idea of work-life balance with the concept of happiness and health of the
employees. Those who work with physical strengths must understand the idea of work-life
balance. The imbalance is seen mostly among the age group of 31-40 (21%) and it is mainly seen
among non-Hispanic black working class (Ncbi.nlm.nih.gov, 2017). The workers who are less
educated work hard to earn their livelihood. This work-life balance issue is mostly seen among
the men and they cannot give their quality time to the family. In occupation base statistics, it is
found that legal occupation; people face issues in maintaining work-life balance (26%).
Role of technology plays a vital role. In recent time, most of the organisations are getting
technology friendly and they ask the employees to continue their work even from home. The
employees have to complete the work in their house, in this way, the work-life balance is
suffered and this affects the workers in form of stress and low-birth rates. In the last two decades,
it has been observed that new economy understands that workers and technologies both have full
potential to work maximum hours. These changes occur in cognitive competence, psychological
contract between employer and employees and social interactive process. As stated by Grint and
Case (2015, p. 558), the employees who are engaged in long computer related work or who get
busy over phones tend to be alienated from family life. They suffer from lack of libido, eye-sight
problem and depression. The data taken from interview supported that in not making the balance
between work and life, parents, spouses and children are mostly affected. The person can suffer
from mental illness if he is part of ‘sandwich' generation. The changing aspect of working does
not make any boundary of work and employees have to be ready for 24*7 for the employers. In