🎧 Whose Work is it Anyway?

Episode summary: David and Helen talk with Diane Coyle about what the pandemic has revealed about the changing nature of work. Who is doing more of it? Who is still getting paid for it? Which jobs are not coming back? Plus we explore the impact of the digital revolution on how we get rewarded for what we do and we ask whether the big tech firms can continue to hoover up so many of the rewards. Is Jeff Bezos really worth it? Talking Points: Since the post-war era, unpaid work in the home doesn’t get measured in formal economic statistics. - At the time, people argued it would be too hard to measure. - When women went out to work in the paid workforce, the market started growing. - The digital revolution brought a lot of things we paid for back into the home, for example, online banking. The pandemic has exacerbated existing social patterns and trends. - Women are more likely to have been laid off and furloughed. The hardest hit sectors, such as hospitality and retail, employ more women. - All working parents have been hit…