Due to the development of the practice of remote work, the United Kingdom can lose each fifth workplace, that is, the order of six million inhabitants of the kingdom can lose their job. On the threat of radical change warned the Institute of Global Changes Tony Blair, the former Premiere of the Kingdom, reports Bloomberg.
The main danger hubbed over the “white collar” of a wide profile – from graphic designers to programmers. Their vacancies can be transferred to outsource to other countries where workers work is cheaper.
In the organization, called for such a tendency, otherwise the country will face serious political, economic and social consequences. Their authors of the report compared with the situation of the 1970s, when the number of jobs in the manufacturing industry was reduced, but only the process would be faster.
Experiment with remote work, on which companies went due to the coronavirus pandemic, demonstrated that in offices you can only leave the main staff. The management of national statistics reports that 58 percent of companies wishing for employees to work from home, explained such a decision to reduce costs.
If companies are in mass order to go to the international labor market, the government program to improve the standard of living will be in a more complex position. The Tony Blair Institute proposed to solve the problem to improve the infrastructure, including in the issue of accessing the network and communication speed. Then British workers will have advantages.
Earlier it was reported that Apple employees who worked remotely opposed the new rule that bindings them from the autumn to work from an office at least three days a week. As they say in the appropriate appeal, many of them have already filed a letter of dismissal.