Il prossimo capo avverte del calo “drammatico” dei lavori entry-level

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This is also the problem with automating a lot of the grunt work in other job fields.

It works great with all your experienced you have at the moment, but what happens 10 years down the line when they’ve moved on and you never hired people at a lower level to learn/progress?

Surprisingly not about AI for a change.

TLDR: Next boss, a Tory peer who was paid £7 million last year, is concerned about a rise in the number of applicants for jobs at next and would like to see minimum wage/employer NI contribution rises reversed and the ban on zero hour contracts stopped because:

>”When people talk about a company making a billion pounds, they assume that that’s somehow a person with a billion pounds in their pocket and they must be very, very rich. But the nature of public companies is that we are owned by hundreds of thousands of savers whose savings are often very modest,”

Next make a very nice profit so not sure i feel too sorry for him pushing for zero hour contracts. He’s making a big deal of self service returns yet the staff are still needed to collect, scan and sort them for return – i see it myself. Sounds like he’s just trying to make a point to the government.

The irony is *incredible*.

Next desperately need to be able to ‘hire’ people on zero hours contracts, presumably so they don’t have to pay them if they don’t need to, and also reduce the NI they don’t pay them. And the government are making that impossible!

And all because they are *only* expected to make **£1.2 billion in profit** this year! However will this guy be able to afford another yacht???

Considering Next clears 1 billion profit a year, and has done so constantly for 10 years and has restricted its internal mid management teams with a 5 year pay freeze and it has some of the strictest working conditions of the industry, it’s kind of crazy the nonsense they spew.

But yep, gotta blame an increase on national insurance 

It’s OK guys, young people don’t need jobs. It’s not like it’s going to cause a violent revolution with all of the 1% against a wall or anything.

Notably, he moans about their wage bill going up by about two grand a head off the back of the minimum wage and NI changes, which means they are paying fucking peanuts. 

Several factors are working here.

Minimum wage should be a working wage but then the increase in cost wouldn’t be tolerated by the consumers.

Tax increases and min wage increases are crippling businesses and are anti growth. However, someone working full time should not need additional benefits to allow them to survive.

Zero hour contracts have a place in my view. However, as always they have been misused. A fixed part time contract should be the defacto.

The government and business is to blame for the UKs employment problem. Throw the problem of mental health where it is seen as an obstacle to work (whereas the opposite should be true) and it’s toxic .