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Slivers-of-Time Working is significant. Still in its infancy, it could eventually create a more inclusive labour market. That's good for employers, recruitment companies and the taxpayer. We attract a range of endorsements, criticisms and analysis. You can read some of it in this section.
It may be that this new form of employment will one day blur the distinction between employed and unemployed. People have varying degrees of closeness to the workforce but very few people do no work at all.
Having completely personalised working patterns available to anyone at any point in their lives could solve many problems of exclusion and labour market inefficiency. But the welfare system did not anticipate this sort of fluidity. For this workstyle to reach deep into the most deprived households there may one day have to be recognition of genuinely personalised working in the benefits system.
