The Autonomy Institute
@Autonomy_Inst
Independent research institute rethinking economies in an age of crisis. Consultancy: helping firms run and evaluate shorter working week trials.
🚨 'Forum 2029: Building a living standards policy platform for the UK' 🚨 The UK needs a strong living standards policy programme, but it has yet to emerge 🕙 Join us for the launch of our seminar series this summer on Weds 4th June 👇 #forum2029 buff.ly/j21h9fi
🌊Privatisation broke our water system. We need public ownership instead. That’s why we're backing the People’s Plan for Water alongside @PeoplesMomentum @Autonomy_Inst @GNDRising @XRebellionUK @labourlewis Add your name: actionnetwork.org/forms/water-be…
New in @tribunemag 🚨 Our modelling shows nearly two-thirds of UK workers could face working temperatures over 35C by 2030, but the Employment Rights Bill says nothing about extreme heat... 🌡️ We need a statutory maximum temperature👇 🖊️@philjones7771 & @Liam_Mullally
The Employment Rights Bill is not yet law — and there is still time for the Government to make a decisive move to upgrade the UK’s climate resilience and protect millions of workers. tribunemag.co.uk/2025/07/extrem…
New mini menu up on the front page, for easy clickthroughs of all of our labs and work streams. autonomy.work
The 4-day week is a win-win for workers and employers. Don’t believe us? We can prove it. “A team at Boston College said their landmark study, involving more than 100 companies in the U.S., U.K. Australia, Canada, and Ireland, had revealed the shift was associated with a high…
As our #UBS Hub has argued, we can't have a water system run for the common good without the accountability of common ownership. @CompassOffice are completely correct 👇
Our statement in @theipaper on the final Cunliffe report, and why it won't be even remotely sufficient to clean up our waters. It's time for public ownership.
This is cool - the data team at the @Autonomy_Inst have created a curated dataset of 10-k filings on AI risk, to show what the biggest firms are saying about the threat AI poses to their models. Check it out: adu.autonomy.work/posts/2025_05_…
Let’s celebrate the ENIAC Six — six brilliant women who programmed the world’s first general-purpose computer during WWII, launching the software revolution before the word “software” even existed. A thread 🧵👇
Lena Swedlow from @CompassOffice, making the case for proportional representation at our recent Forum 2029 event. The next event is after the summer, in September. More details here: autonomy.work/forum-2029/
A weekend look back into the @Autonomy_Inst archive... 📚 With June's inflation figures rising to 3.6%, and living standards under further squeeze, our report 'General Decline' charted the wide fall in UK real weekly wages between 2019 and 2024 📉 buff.ly/Vu26Pt2
The superhero music was almost as good as what @jemgilbert had to say!! Privatisation has failed!
This week's live Forum 2029 event was excellent and we were privileged to have a fantastic panel. The full video will be uploaded soon. Here is Prof. @jemgilbert making a definitive case for more democracy and basic nationalisation, for which there is mass support.