Gig work in ‘Life beyond COVID-19’ (UK Parliament)

Back in July 2020, GIGWELL participated, with over 350 UK scholars and experts, to a survey for a Lords select committee inquiry into 'Life beyond COVID'. 

‘Gig work’ features in a number of points raised by experts:

• “Experts suggested that remote working might transform work life but that the availability and security of work might reduce”

• “Experts raise concerns that there will be higher levels of unemployment in the next few years, with fewer permanent jobs and more people in precarious work (such as temporary roles, fixed-term contracts, zero hours contracts or ‘gig’ work). This would have implications for career progression as well as individuals’ ability to save or to handle unexpected financial issues. It would also have effects on income tax yield, the cost of benefits and state pension planning. There were particular concerns around inequality in this area.”

  You can read the full synthesis of the responses, and the list of experts who joined the survey, on the POST website.