The Future Work Awards 2018 from RSA in London

The Future Work Awards 2018 will recognise the most innovative and inspiring approaches to work from around the globe, from people redesigning how to work with robots, groups of self-employed freelancers sharing their incomes, new approaches to lifelong learning and trade unions which give voice to young workers in the gig economy.

The Awards will be made to a relatively small number of organisations at high-profile public launch event in London. Award winners will be profiled in the extensive publicity and press coverage generated by the launch, as well as being able to display a specially designed award logo on their website and their social media presence.

Eligibility:

The Awards are open to organisations from around the world which could be charities, companies, social businesses, trade unions, cooperatives. We are looking for organisations that have a proven track record for addressing a real challenge that affects significant numbers of people and do so by innovating in its business model, organisational form, technology or service.

Awards Themes:

[1] Skills and training.

[2] Worker voice.

[3] Economy security.

[4] Fairer platforms.

[5] Technology for good.

[6] Diversity and inclusion.

[7] Flexible working.

[8] Management and HR.

[9] Organizational form.

Judging Criteria:

The Awards will go to those organisations that can show they:

[1] have a proven track record of impact.

[2] address a significant challenge.

[3] Use an innovative approach.

[4] Have at least the potential to spread and scale up.

The judges may decide to make some awards to up and coming and promising projects which do not yet have evidence of impact.