Sm ppma 17 apr 15 from the disco to the download sarah messenger

1. From the disco to the download
Sarah Messenger, Head of Workforce, LGA

2. Disco to the download…

3. This session:
• Look at past contexts and present
challenges
• Consider future expectations from research
into workforce of the future
• What can we learn from the evolving
nature of the ‘employment deal’

4. 1975
• Payscales from £1,215 to
£7,407
• Annual RPI was 24.9%
• ‘Medical Director of Health’
removed as a local govt
function

5. 1980s & 1990s
• Diversity & equality
ridiculed as ‘loony left’
• Move from rates to
Community Charge to
Council Tax

6. 2015
• Minimum £13,500 per annum
• Zero / negative inflation
• Uncertain future for all national
and local govt
• Reducing local govt workforce
numbers
• After 40 year absence, Public
Health Directors return to local
govt

7. 2025?
• Councils with small workforce
to commission services?
• All decision & spending power
devolved to local level?
• millennials account for 75%
workforce ?
• Public Health returns to NHS?

9. Future of work….Millennials?
Millennials (or Generation Y)
born 1990s to the early 2000s.
“…have a different view of how
work should get done and come
into the workforce with a
different set of expectations..”

10. Future of work….Millennials?
• Transparent Leadership
• “Meaningful” Work
• Work in teams to
accomplish ‘goals’.
• ‘Remote’ working norm
• Results over “degrees”
• change the meaning of
“face-time”
• End of Annual appraisals
• Work as a game…
“Deloitte found that 92%
of millennials believe that
business should be
measured by more than
just profit and should
focus on a societal
purpose and 83% of
millennials gave to
charities in 2012”

11. Future ‘Employment Deal’?
• Local needs very different and ever changing
• “Work” focused on outcomes not time based inputs
• Public service ethos
• Expectations for talent progression beyond traditional
• More personal empowerment, calculated risk taking &
innovative approaches
• Pay & Rewards are much more tailored to individual preferences
and contribution

12. “It's not the labels, the industry, the fans, the
cities, the economy, the social media, the
marketing, the promoting, the 'right time,' the
music, or whatever other excuse you can
come up with that determines whether you
succeed or you fail. It is you, no one else,”
― Loren Weisman,
A Guide to Success in the Music Business

13. “Disco to
the
download
. . .”
Bay city Rollers - Bye Bye Baby
Just over 1 million sales in 1975
Jenifer Rush – Power of Love
Just over 1.4 million sales in 1985
Hozier - Take me to church
Just over 600k sales in 2015