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terça-feira, janeiro 18, 2005
People who are broke after Christmas are getting second jobs in January to help pay off the bills.
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With many of us suffering from a financial hangover following the festive spending binge, employment agencies say that people already in work are taking on temporary jobs to raise funds.
This might be anything from night shifts in call centres to catering work in the evening, with the 24-hour culture creating a demand for flexible, temporary workers. According to the Office for National Statistics, there are more than a million people with two jobs - and that this figure usually peaks in January.
Adecco, the biggest employment agency, says that in the current buoyant labour market people have the chance to find temporary jobs quickly. Increasingly, people are looking to top-up their income or to pay off credit card bills.
The most popular type of second job is in call centres, says Adecco, but there is also demand for staff in offices, retail, hotels and catering. The Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) says this trend is a reflection of an increasingly diverse pattern of work.
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The greater availability of work and low levels of unemployment mean that we are collectively working an increas ing number of total hours, with the Office for National Statistics reporting that up to October 2004, we were working six million more hours each week than the previous year, higher than at any time since these records began 30 years ago. But becoming a nation of two-job night-owls might raise concerns that this is going to become another example of the long-hours culture and "burn-out Britain".
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Guardian Unlimited - Cashing in at the call centre
With many of us suffering from a financial hangover following the festive spending binge, employment agencies say that people already in work are taking on temporary jobs to raise funds.
This might be anything from night shifts in call centres to catering work in the evening, with the 24-hour culture creating a demand for flexible, temporary workers. According to the Office for National Statistics, there are more than a million people with two jobs - and that this figure usually peaks in January.
Adecco, the biggest employment agency, says that in the current buoyant labour market people have the chance to find temporary jobs quickly. Increasingly, people are looking to top-up their income or to pay off credit card bills.
The most popular type of second job is in call centres, says Adecco, but there is also demand for staff in offices, retail, hotels and catering. The Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) says this trend is a reflection of an increasingly diverse pattern of work.
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The greater availability of work and low levels of unemployment mean that we are collectively working an increas ing number of total hours, with the Office for National Statistics reporting that up to October 2004, we were working six million more hours each week than the previous year, higher than at any time since these records began 30 years ago. But becoming a nation of two-job night-owls might raise concerns that this is going to become another example of the long-hours culture and "burn-out Britain".
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Guardian Unlimited - Cashing in at the call centre
posted by CMT, 11:45 da tarde
