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...“I’m not trying to suggest any of this is ‘beneath us’, it’s all important and necessary, but we used to have well-resourced business support, admin and HR roles that did all this — and did it well,” he...
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...So it was an excellent moment to revisit this in-depth interview between her and Sarah O’Connor, the FT’s employment expert, on why some jobs are “greedy” and whether she thinks the gender pay gap will continue...
...I’m not convinced. Take the unexpected trend in the UK of people dropping out of the workforce in recent years — something that hasn’t happened in nearby countries such as France and Germany....
...Sarah O’Connor: It has been a couple of years now since the UK changed its immigration policy quite dramatically, and effectively stopped most lower-paid migrants from coming in....
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