Meet over half of the working world. They are the machine that powers our society - from making your coffee and emptying your bins, to caring for your relatives and delivering your parcels. You might see them as ‘frontline’ or ‘essential’ workers…or you might not see them at all.
Invisible Worker explores the financial landscape of our most diligent workforce. By speaking to experts in mobility, inclusion, policy, research and more, we find out where the problems are, and how we can start to fix them.
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Meet over half of the working world. They are the machine that powers our society - from making your coffee and emptying your bins, to caring for your relatives and delivering your parcels. You might see them as ‘frontline’ or ‘essential’ workers…or you might not see them at all.
Invisible Worker explores the financial landscape of our most diligent workforce. By speaking to experts in mobility, inclusion, policy, research and more, we find out where the problems are, and how we can start to fix them.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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A huge thank you to my guest Owain Service for coming on the show to talk about the behavioural science of money and to unveil the new research we did together.
Here are some of the links to topics we discussed on the show.
Use the Institute of Fiscal Studies tool to check how your household income stacks up against the rest of the UK. I hope you finished the showing perhaps feeling richer than you started, but if you want to check it out to be sure this is a great tool.
The Office of National Statistics (ONS) Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings is a great tool for understanding how pay is distributed. You can also get a snapshot, as I did, from looking at a single month of ONS data
In preparation for this episode Owain advised me to read the Perils of Perception by Bobby Duffy, which was fascinating. I also brushed up on the Thaler and Sunstein’s “Nudge”
Finally, we talked about Scarcity Mindset which is something I’m fascinated with, so much so that I wrote my own short paper about it, Mind Over Money. It’s a relatively short read, links back to some of the sources we discussed on the show, and as a bonus has a brief history of the concept of Scarcity Mindset and how some of the data I observe in my day job as Chief Impact Officer at Wagestream is potentially connected to this phenomenon.
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