These are some of the critical questions to be explored by the University of Surrey’s new Future of Work Research Centre, which launched last week [26 May 2022].
  
The new Research Centre will focus on people management and job quality in a rapidly changing working environment characterised by rapid technological advancements, economic developments and societal value changes. “These changes have transformed the nature and organisation of work, as well as conditions of employment,” a University of Surrey statement said.
 
Professor Ying Zhou, director of the Future of Work Research Centre at the University of Surrey, said: “With so much uncertainty in our work environment, we’ll be looking at the critical questions facing the future workplace – from analysis of job quality and digital technologies through to the hopes and perils of hybrid working… Across our work, we’ll be looking to offer advice on how fairness and justice can be secured in an increasingly diverse workforce.”
  
Furthermore, the Research Centre is being established just as the UK government launches its own Future of Work Review headed by MP Matt Warman. 
 
The launch event will feature Professor Glenn Parry, head of the Department of Digital Economy, Entrepreneurship and Innovation; Professor Francis Green, professor of Work and Education Economics at UCL Institute of Education; and Jonny Gifford, senior adviser for Organisational Behaviour at the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. 
 
More details on the Future of Work Research Centre can be found here.

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