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The study, titled "" challenges conventional narratives that technological exposure alone dictates workforce outcomes. The research maps how worker-led AI tool usage and employer-led algorithmic management collide to create deeply stratified workplace realities.

Ultimately, the analysis indicates that supply-side policy frameworks focusing solely on worker upskilling or expanding technology access have structural limitations. Dr Lee demonstrates that without directly regulating algorithmic monitoring and control practices, expanding AI access risks simply transitioning more workers into high-intensity, highly managed configurations rather than genuinely empowering them.

The European Commission is keen to deliver a Quality Jobs Roadmap. Director of IER, Chris Warhurst was invited to speak at a Cedefop in Thessaloniki in June.

Attended by European employers, trade unions and policymakers, the event focused on the skills nexus between productivity and job quality, with Chris presenting data on the link between job quality and innovation and productivity as part of building the business case for good jobs.

Dr Sangwoo Lee, Assistant Professor, Institute for Employment Research, said: 'The minor reduction in unemployment seen in today's data, is accompanied by a 0.3 % increase in economic inactivity - partly driven by discouraged jobseekers retreating from the market rather than being absorbed into stable jobs. We're also seeing a gradual shift towards non-traditional working arrangements. Strengthening protection these workers should be a priority.

Researchers from IER and Warwick Medical School have developed a model to identify barriers to the effective transfer of stroke patients between hospital and social care settings.

We’re delighted that Vivensa Foundation, who funded the work, and its PI, IER Director Chris Warhurst, as the ‘Academy member’ of the month.

The team lead by Dr Gianni Anelli included Professor Derek Bosworth, Dr Jason Madan (Warwick Medical School) and Dr M.A. Whitehead, a stroke consultant at University Hospital Crosshouse, Scotland, where the team hope to trial the model using real world data.

IER's Dr Sangwoo LeeLink opens in a new window and Prof Chris WarhurstLink opens in a new window, alongside Prof Angela Knox Link opens in a new window(University of Sydney) and Dr Sally Wright (University of Sheffield), have published a new article titled "". It draws on survey data from 427 Australian hospitality workers to examine how six dimensions of job quality relate to workers' self-rated general health, and whether these relationships vary by gender.

The findings point to the need for structural, job-level interventions, for instance, stronger workplace representation, reduced employment insecurity, expanded training and progression, and improved pay, alongside gender-sensitive measures targeting autonomy for female workers and social support for male workers.