Working Five to Nine - How we can deliver work-life integration

In the first report of the series, The Ties That Bind, Tim Thorlby focuse on the rise of lone and insecure work and argued for a new covenant for work – one which balances the interests of employers and employees in a renewed a sense of mutuality. [...] International 13 Working Five to Nine comparisons in a recent World Values Survey release show The UK public are that the UK public are the least likely of 24 countries to say that the least likely work is very/rather important in their life (73% in the UK, of 24 countries to say that work compared to 96% in Italy, 94% in France, or 80% in the United is very/rather States). [...] But the shift in the labour market, which is unfolding in a different way in the UK compared to similar countries, implies that this difference at the level of the cultural priority of work might be having a tangible effect on our economy. [...] The papal encyclical, Laborem Excercens, states that: …the basis for determining the value of human work is not primarily the kind of work being done but the fact that the one who is doing it is a person… the primary basis of the value of work is the human being, who is its subject. [...] Paul has carried out research on a diverse range of themes, from the contribution of churches and faith- based organisations, to the role of the Bishops in the House of Lords, and the intersection of faith and sport.