Who’s thriving, who’s struggling and who’s stuck at the kitchen table: how working lives are changing in the UK

By Alan Felstead, Emeritus Professor, Cardiff University

For many people in the UK work is changing: how we work, what we do and where we do it. The change is faster for some than it is for others – and it’s not always changing for the better.

A new national survey — organised and managed by my colleagues and I — paints a mixed picture of UK working life. What makes the Skills and Employment Survey 2024 unique is that it the eighth in of a series that stretches back to the mid-1980s .

The survey focuses on people’s working lives: what skills they use, how…

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