A moderately interesting post over at The Shelf that explores the current jobs situation as the credit crunch begins to bite and makes reference to various surveys taken by online UK job sites that reveals the astonishing number of UK workers who not only are unhappy with salary but with their jobs too.Many low paid jobs are down right dirty jobs - agricultural workers sowing and harvesting crops, back room catering staff and local authority refuse and hygiene technicians all survive on meagre wages yet deal with dirt on a daily basis.
Not surprisingly a significant proportion of these workers are unhappy with the amount of money they earn believing themselves to be underpaid.
The fear of losing their work is cited as a primary reason for never having asked for a pay review and unsurprisingly well over a third claim never to have had a pay rise in their current dirty job.
The research also highlights what could be viewed as either healthy movement in the jobs market or a ticking time bomb as 75% of workers said they would not expect to earn their ideal wage in their current job. Registrations at online specialist and general recruitment agencies has dramatically increased with job hunters signing up to rss feeds to be first to learn about latest vacancies that offer opportunities to improve their wage and working environment extracting themselves from the dirty job market.
