11 January 2019
By James Adonis
The beginning of a new year, for many people, is accompanied by a resolution to find a new job.
Often, a driver of that job-seeking ambition can be attributed to the fact they perceive their current work as unnecessary – a useless set of duties and responsibilities – a job that, were they to resign, wouldn’t need to be replaced, although it almost certainly would be.
A massive new study, which encompasses more than 100,000 employees across 47 countries over almost three decades, reveals a number of startling statistics. One of these, for example, is that nearly one-in-ten workers think their job is socially useless. This is especially true of Australians who significantly outrank the Kiwis and the Yanks in regards to job uselessness.
The findings, published this month in Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society (click here), also disclose that people in the private sector are far more likely than those in the public sector to believe their job serves no valuable purpose: 11 per cent versus 3 per cent....
