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28-03-2018, 08:56 AM | #1 | |||
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Migrants stop working harder than British people after they have been in the country for two years, research has shown. A study by the University of Bath found Central and Eastern Europe migrants' tendency to take fewer absent days from work than British workers may be nothing more than a temporary phenomenon. When their attendance rates were measured over two to four years they were more than three times less likely to be absent from work than native UK workers. But after this period their absences from work increased to similar levels recorded for native UK workers. It means native UK workers may be unfairly overlooked for jobs because employers have a preconception that migrants are harder workers. Employment experts suggested migrants were making a special effort to avoid sick days in the initial stages of their UK employment to prove that they were worth hiring over UK workers and to make up for their lack of language skills. Dr Chris Dawson, senior lecturer in Business Economics at the University of Bath, said: "Our work backs up managers' perceptions that Polish and other Central and Eastern European migrants are harder working than UK employees, but importantly only for around two years from their arrival in the UK. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...s-study-finds/ What are your thoughts on this? |
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28-03-2018, 09:02 AM | #2 | |||
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That they're making an effort to integrate and pick up local traditions?
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28-03-2018, 09:30 AM | #3 | ||
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28-03-2018, 09:33 AM | #4 | |||
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I think a lot ofg employers just use the "harder workers" "do work brits wont" to hide the fact they can pay them less/work them more and make more profit
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28-03-2018, 09:36 AM | #5 | |||
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Yeah pretty much this. It's all a smokescreen to get as much work as possible out of them for the least pay.
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28-03-2018, 09:44 AM | #6 | ||
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I wonder though... is it that they're putting in "extra" effort to make a good impression, or IS that their normal level, but then once they;ve been here a while our lack of work ethic starts to rub off on them?
So you could argue... it's just that they've become "more British" . |
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28-03-2018, 09:47 AM | #7 | |||
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28-03-2018, 09:47 AM | #8 | |||
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They probably realise that they can get things without working so do not bother working so much.
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28-03-2018, 09:49 AM | #9 | |||
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Like the UK workers you mean? cos that's what it says in the article, they now work just like their UK colleagues
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28-03-2018, 09:52 AM | #10 | |||
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maybe they just learn how to be more efficient
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28-03-2018, 09:53 AM | #11 | |||
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Could be LT, good for them
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28-03-2018, 09:53 AM | #12 | ||
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28-03-2018, 09:58 AM | #13 | |||
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...not us staying over here and stealing all of their great work ethics.../...poor migrant people..
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28-03-2018, 09:59 AM | #14 | |||
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"I don't know what's wrong with me..." said our source, "I used to be up at 6am and the first one in to do a full days work. And I enjoyed it! But now, all I want to do is watch Netflix and argue with people on the internet. I haven't been to work for nearly 6 months, and in the last year my wife has had 3 children just for the Tax Credits. My boss hasn't even noticed my absence, because he's never there either... he left in the middle of the day to play Call of Duty and eat Doritos and hasn't come back."
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28-03-2018, 10:28 AM | #17 | |||
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28-03-2018, 11:03 AM | #19 | ||
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Yeah, I think at first they work harder to make a good impression and to go further/earn more, just like most do when in a new job. Then just like most, migrant or not, over time they revert to their natural individual pace - there are hardworking migrants and hardworking British, and lazier migrants and lazier British.
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28-03-2018, 11:10 AM | #23 | |||
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Are they taking their lead from their role model manager
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