The COVID-19 pandemic, which swept across the globe in the early months of 2020, has rapidly accelerated long-standing trends in labour markets and economies around the world. Income inequality, precarious work and the digitisation of the economy are now issues that policymakers must grapple with immediately, or risk economic ruin and social upheaval.

The COVID-19 crisis is having unequal impacts on the labour force with low-paid workers suffering the most.

This report explores how technological change will impact on the future of work. It identifies opportunities to improve the promotion of innovation and good practice across the education system.

This draft report outlines three options for improving income security in New Zealand.

The analysis presented in this report demonstrates a new way to identify the kinds of tasks and occupations likely to be affected by AI’s machine learning capabilities, rather than automation’s robotics and software impacts on the economy.