What do workers want?

Melbourne
Tuesday 25 October 2022

The Covid pandemic has changed work, and people's expectations of work have changed with it.

It is more flexible for some and more insecure for others, and developments in technology and changes in the economy continue to open new possibilities of what work can be - though not all of them for everyone.

Amid the changing nature of work, is the balance with life now better or worse? And how does work need to change to meet the shifts in people's values and aspirations?

Walkley Award winning journalist Helen Dalley facilitated a panel discussion on these and other questions with:

• Dr Nicholas Eberstadt, Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy at the American Enterprise Institute
• Dr Catherine de Fontenay, Commissioner with the Australian Productivity Commission
• Professor John Haldane, Professor of Philosophy of Education

An introduction to the discussion can be watched in the following short video:

Highlights of the panellists' remarks can be watched in the following short video:

The full event including the Q&A session can be watched in the following video: