News

Slivers-of-Time Working is significant. Still in its early days, it could eventually create a more inclusive labour market. That's good for employers, agencies and the taxpayer. We attract a range of endorsements, criticisms and analysis. You can read it in this section.

 It may be that this new form of employment will one day blur the distinction between employed and unemployed. We have varying degrees of closeness to the workforce but very few people do no work at all.

A world where completely personalised working patterns are available to anyone at any point in their lives could solve many problems of economic exclusion and labour market inefficiency. But the current welfare system is woefully inadequate to dealing with this sort of fluidity. For this workstyle to reach deep into the most deprived households there will have to be changes to the rules and the infrastructure of the current benefits system.