Author: London HR Connection
52View
2m 52sLenght
0Rating

The UK Economic and Jobs Outlook to 2020 and beyond – full employment with higher pay or an emerging technological dystopia? Since 2008 the UK economy has suffered the longest and deepest recession in 80 years and the slowest and weakest economic recovery in 200 years. Yet despite this employment has risen to a record level, underlying economic weakness instead observed in a fall in labour productivity and an unprecedented squeeze on real wages. What will the coming decade bring? The talk will assess the economic and jobs outlook, highlighting both challenges and opportunities, and in the light of emerging technological change (‘the rise of the robots’) consider prospects for combining record employment with improved income growth. Speaker: John Philpott, Director of The Jobs Economist ​John began his career in higher education in the early 1980s and then from 1987- 2000 was Director of the Employment Policy Institute (EPI), an independent public policy think-tank. From November 2000 to August 2012 he was Chief Economic Adviser at the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD). ​ ​John holds a DPhil (Oxford 1984) an Honorary DLitt (University of Westminster) and was from 1998 to 2008 Visiting Professor of Economics at the University of Hertfordshire. John is a Fellow of the RSA and a member of the Society of Business Economists ​John is a former Specialist Adviser to the House of Commons Select Committee on Employment (from 1993-1996) and (in 2007) the House of Lords EU Select Committee. He has also advised numerous other UK and international bodies, including several UK government departments, the United Nations, the European Commission, the IMF, the OECD, the TUC, and The Princes Trust. ​John is a regular media commentator on employment and workplace issues. Event Timings: 6.00pm – 8.30pm Registration, drinks & networking 6.00pm – 6.30pm Presentation including q & a 6.30pm – 7.30pm Drinks & networking 7.30pm – 8.30pm