New research by the Institute for the Future of Work’s Nuffield-funded Pissarides Review, in partnership with Digit, underscores the central importance of investing in institutional structures such as HR policies and worker voice to ensure new technologies such as AI reduce barriers to mobility and raise pay – especially for those on the lowest wages.
As AI and other workplace technologies rapidly reshape the UK labour market, the connecting narrative of these three research papers shows that the future of work is not technologically predetermined – and that institutions are the decisive factor in whether innovation delivers shared prosperity or entrenches inequality.
