As our poll shows most people have jobs they like most of the time. Increasing numbers of jobs are fulfilling and personally rewarding. This is something to celebrate. And the majority, as this report sets out in detail in a later section, think they are well managed. But this does not mean an end to problems at work.
Gross exploitation continues in too many workplaces.
The first ever right to paid holidays in the UK introduced thanks to Europe s Working Time Regulations benefited a similar number. Any union organising the low paid or any advice agency can produce numerous examples of harsh treatment that could come straight from the pages of Dickens. Caring jobs can be personally rewarding, but are often grossly underpaid. But even among the majority who have fulfilling jobs they enjoy, there are new problems. Modern working life is too often dominated by stress, long hours and sheer pressure of work as our poll reveals.