Labour Staging a Comeback

... greater flexibility in working location and working-week duration. With countries such as UAE and New Zealand adopting the 4-day working week, many more countries are likely to follow their lead in the years to come. Overall, the transformation of capitalism towards a more labour-oriented mode is underway. The ESG paradigm at the corporate level and the sizeable scale of stimuli that prioritized social outlays and household consumption during the pandemic crisis are suggestive of such a shift. The question is whether this is a systemic transformation or an ...