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  • Agency and temporary workers from healthcare, construction and other sectors representing Britain’s growing reliance on substitute and precarious labour.
    Systems | Optimisation

    Britain’s Substitute Workforce

    13 August 202613 August 2026

    🇬🇧 Britain still needs its doctors, teachers, nurses and skilled workers. But permanent roles are increasingly supplemented by agency staff and temporary labour. ⚙️ When flexibility becomes the system, what exactly are we optimising?

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  • The Poor Man at His Gate — Victorian gate contrasted with a modern zero-hours worker checking a shift notification
    Systems | Optimisation

    The Poor Man at His Gate

    13 August 202613 August 2026

    📱 The poor man doesn’t stand at the gate anymore. He checks his phone. From Victorian casual labour to zero-hours contracts, the language has changed, but the uncertainty remains. 🏭⏳

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