What’s Happening to Work? Book

No respect: changing attitudes to hierarchy at work. Society is built around hierarchies. Families comprise hierarchies. Organisations definitely are organised around hierarchies. Without the acceptance that some people call the shots and therefore are inherently more ‘valuable’ than others, there would be anarchy according to most accepted wisdom.  Just as there needs to be order […]

Whilst Covid is becoming a distant memory (or rather a new, less intense background feature for most people) the post-Covid age is marked by the harsh reality that organisations have limits to how far they can accommodate the wishes of their employees. In addition, the age-old lack of understanding between different groups of people still

Not many people working now were also working thirty years ago, but, for those that were, work has changed beyond recognition. Virtually gone are whole industries and sectors (for example coal mining, shorthand typists or textile production), replaced by waves of different roles in technology and the service sectors in the UK. As industries shrank