A December 2021 update [Scale and nature of precarious work in the UK]

Summary

We submitted the final version of our original report in April 2020, one month into the first lockdown in the UK. We are grateful to the DLME that they allowed us to write a short update to our report an unprecedented 20 months later. Since April 2020, two new waves of the USS have been released, permitting the extension of our analysis up until 2020. In the next section, we will update the headline statistics presented in the main report and make some tentative suggestions about the relevance of these findings for a post-pandemic economy.