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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Jasmine Norden

Offering work experience ‘too time consuming’, some businesses claim

Two in five (41%) businesses that do not offer work experience to school pupils say it is too time consuming, a survey has found.

A third of senior business leaders surveyed by The Careers & Enterprise Company (CEC) not offering work experience also said they do not have the staff capacity to supervise work experience (33%), or they lack suitable tasks for young people (34%).

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