How to protect an increasingly agile workforce

Zurich and the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at the University of Oxford are midway through a three-year programme studying these workforce patterns and assessing the implications for individuals, policymakers and other stakeholders including employers, insurers and advisers. Last month, the programme produced its most authoritative report to date[1], People protection: insights on empowering an agile workforce. Surveying 18,000 people across 16 countries, from Brazil to Australia, the US to Romania, it has emerged that workforce protection might not be evolving at the s...