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Lack of work ethic fuels unemployment crisis, says CSJ in new report
Poor work attitudes among the long-term unemployed are the major barrier to tackling Britain‟s jobless crisis, according to a major new report to be published on Tuesday, July 5.
Based on a survey and extensive interviews with employers, the report says that a commitment to hard work, presentation and punctuality is more important than literacy and numeracy skills when firms fill "entry level jobs", such as the hotel and restaurant trade, retailing, catering and manufacturing, typically staffed by unskilled workers. Such jobs make up about a third of the total UK workforce of around 27 million.
"Eighty two per cent of entry level employers rated attitude and work ethic as important to progression versus 38 per cent for literacy and numeracy," the report says.
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