Report Series
The Pacific Peoples and the Future of Work Report is a summary of the analysis completed to inform the Matangi Fou initiatives delivered as part of the Alo Vaka – Auckland Pacific Skills Shift initiative.
This report seeks to amplify the voices of Pacific communities in South Auckland, so policy makers, designers and deliverers include these communities’ insights in the early planning and design of the Future of Work in Aotearoa New Zealand. It also informs the development of future Matangi Fou initiatives.
Matangi Fou Summary Report
In 2021, The Cause Collective conducted fieldwork to understand the current perspectives of Pacific communities in South Auckland about the Future of Work.
What our research tells us
- Pacific peoples hold aspirations to participate in the Future of Work, but individual career aspirations are subordinate to collective wellbeing.
- Pacific peoples feel unprepared for the Future of Work because to their lack of awareness and understanding about technology advancements and what the jobs of the future might be
- Pacific peoples feel they lack the necessary qualifications and experience to participate in the Future of Work
- Pacific peoples themselves identify a lack of self-belief and confidence as major barriers to considering new careers pathway’s
- Job stability, work-life balance, and giving back to the community are major motivators for the Future of Work for Pacific peoples
- COVID-19 has highlighted the social and economic inequities and inequalities that exist for Pacific families in South Auckland
- Pacific families want information and support to give them options about the Future of Work. Information needs to be about locally based opportunities and delivered by a trusted source.
Reports
While current Matangi Fou initiatives are making a difference for Pacific communities in South Auckland, there is an opportunity to focus the future direction of Matangi Fou by better clarifying the problems we are working to solve and considering how best to solve it.
The following report series explores in more detail the background and context of Pacific communities in South Auckland, and how this may impact the Future of Work in the area. The report series examines the problem we are trying to solve by looking at the conditions, behaviours and attitudes causing the problem the future state, and what actions we can take through Matangi Fou to move towards this future.
