UK job satisfaction and worker wellbeing could be monitored annually

A new report has recommended that the Government should survey workers annually about their job security, wellbeing and employer support.

The ‘Measuring Good Work Report’, led by the RSA and the Carnegie UK Trust, recommends that the Government should better monitor the quality of work in the UK, by including questions about feelings of purpose, pay and pressure in the annual Labour Force Survey.

The recommendations follow the Matthew Taylor review, put together last year by the RSA Chief Executive who co-chaired this year’s Measuring Good Work report. The aim was to set up a roadmap as to how better-quality work can be achieved.

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The report cites the increase in more flexible or ‘atypical’ forms of working in the last 10-15 years, a term that encompasses part-time workers, self-employed, agency workers, temporary workers, workers on ‘zero hours contracts’, and people working in the ‘gig economy’ – and the surrounding anxiety over lack of clarity on rights for this cohort.