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    Britische Unternehmen haben angesichts des Kostendrucks Schwierigkeiten, junge Leute einzustellen, sagten Abgeordnete


    Britische Unternehmen haben angesichts des Kostendrucks Schwierigkeiten, junge Leute einzustellen, sagten Abgeordnete

    https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/mar/11/uk-companies-struggling-to-hire-young-people-amid-cost-pressures-mps-told

    Von NajafBound

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    1. Year-Holiday on

      It has reached a point for a lot of businesses where staff are so expensive and their productivity is not always where it needs to be that you are far better investing in automation and reducing the need for staff in the first place.

      I’ve seen some reports where customer service staff costs have got so high it’s better on average not have them investigate customer issues and just refund customers straight off the bat.

    2. muzob on

      Our management is pushing the limits by increasing outsource from overseas countries. We can not resist since market in london very harsh atm. Some senior colleagues resinged but could not find anything. Dont know where are we heading.

    3. bright_sorbet1 on

      And yet John Lewis announced they’d finally be paying a staff bonus again for the first time in four years.

    4. SomeBloke94 on

      Of course they are. Companies are horrid for young people. Even for entry level jobs with minimum wage they expect them to essentially audition by working shifts without pay. Many companies will happily use this method to get free work and then just ignore the workers they’ve taken advantage of via this approach to hiring. This is before we even get into the amount of workplaces who also take advantage of the minimum wage employees by firing people the second they age to the point where they’re legally required a higher pay. Threads like this always seem to be filled with comments along the lines of “Won’t someone think of the poor companies and their bottom line?” and yet noone seems to bat an eyelid to the employees who these companies treat like dirt at every turn just to save a few pennies. Why should employees work their butts off for companies like these when they know they’ll be treated like dirt at every turn? Articles like this represent karma.

    5. CheesyBakedLobster on

      There’s an uncomfortable truth that people (and politicians) don’t want to face – a lot of British workers especially at the lower end of the labour market are not productive enough to justify the minimum wage. Yes the salary might be low as a ratio to cost of living, but salary is ultimately the cost of labour as an input to a business – if you are paying a certain amount per hour for wages but the person isn’t contributing to a sufficient output that after all the other fixed costs makes you a profit, then it’s better to look to labour saving measures. The problem is that the more a sector is tilted towards capital input the weaker the bargaining power for labour in that sector compared to capital owners. Some on the populist right like to think that reducing immigration would help by pushing up the cost of labour / wages, but that’s just as foolish as hoping a higher minimum wage would increase productivity which has to do with work ethics culture, education and training.

      People don’t value hard work – it’s an accepted culture for many, especially poor working class, from school age. You are more likely to get bullied for trying to do well at school and intellectual / academic pursuit is constantly looked down on.

    7. Salty-Bid1597 on

      The high minimum wage (4rd highest in the world ignoring Turkey) means it costs the same to employ a 21 year old with no experience as it does to employ a 31 year old with 10 years experience.

      It’s pretty obvious which one is better value.

    8. magrandan on

      They don’t seem to be struggling when it comes to CEOs wages; Citibank CEO made £25million (Brexit benefits – bonuses are uncapped in the Uk) last year.

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