The business world is ever changing, meaning roles are constantly adapting to the stresses of life in a business. As the economy is constantly making changes, either forward or back, it’s important for business’ to see what’s best for them. As well as the economy changing, business laws are too. There are stricter laws against things such as gender equality, working hours and holidays and even making the hiring process fair.
One area that’s changing is pay rates. Across the country minimum wages have gone up, and there are plans for it to be on the rise again shortly. It currently stands that from April 2016, adults over the age of 25 will be legally entitled to £7.20 an hour, which is even now due to rise to. As well as the legal pay rise, it has also become rather common for bosses to give random incentives to help encourage their employees to do better. Some offer this in the form of money bonuses, and some choice to send their employees on team building days or just fun days out. This benefits both employer and employee, having someone tell you you’re doing a good job, and then giving you something back really does boost morale. Not so long ago this would have been a much rarer occurrence.
One of the major things that people have fought for over the years is gender equality. All over the world, women were struggling to be recognised as equals in the world of business. In roles such as the army, construction, and aviation etc. Women are still trying to lose the stigma of being lesser than me in the role. But, business’ are now under so much pressure to be seen as displaying gender equality, hiring processes have changed and more doors have been opened. It was only a matter of time before this happened, there’s so much pressure from the general public and social media, it’s hard to ignore what’s needed to be done.
One final thing that’s changed is the legalities of how jobs are done. There’s a lot more paperwork to be done, and policies in place to make sure everything is done correctly. There are so many areas that people could fine a business, that they can’t really afford to do things by halves. For example, in the world of construction, people used to walk in and out of a site with no CSCS card, no real safety equipment and it’d be fine. Deals were also done with no real paper work completed, and when the job wouldn’t be finished on time, or correctly, it would leave construction dispute solicitors trying to sort the mess out. But now, pretty much any job role can’t be started without some form of contract, no matter what the business is. It helps keeps both the company, and the customer safe.
So, there’s just a few ways job roles are changing, and there are so many more. Compared to 100 years ago, conditions are better for everybody, and people are generally happier in their roles. There are still big issues with unemployment, but hopefully within the next 50 years we’ll see this changing for the better as well.
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