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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Business
Daniel O'Boyle

London is UK’s worst city for nepotism with half of workers handed jobs through connections

London has the highest rate of ‘Nepo workers‘ in the UK, as half of Londoners have been handed a job because of personal connections.

A poll of 2,000 working-age adults conducted by recruitment software firm Applied found the capital beat out Liverpool, Belfast and Plymouth to be the UK’s top city for nepotism, with exactly 50% saying connections gave them a job.

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