Fighting for the cause: companies can no longer ignore activists such as the Occupy movement
People
The rapidly increasing diversity of society has filtered through to the workplace and to how businesses relate to the public, writes Sarah Neville
For generations, work – for all but a privileged elite – meant a form of servitude. Employees were supplicants without rights or protection – Bob Cratchits reliant on the goodwill of their bosses to secure a day off or a pay rise. But over the past century a revolution has taken place in the control people have over their working lives.
In the west, jobs have become part of an assumed right to self-actualisation. ...
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