Non-standard employment and its policy implications

Globally there has been a growing concern about an increase in ‘atypical’ forms of employment. Often, these changes in employment practices are related to changing patterns of work organisation. In the context of what has been described as ‘informational capitalism’, some argue that bureaucratic forms of work organisation have been transcended by network organisations. Flexibility in employment is thus seen as a natural process that is part of a general reliance on less rigid organisational forms.