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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Torsten Bell

Pay may be up for the UK’s lowest earners, but so are work demands and stress levels

A cleaner mops the floor of an office.
Job satisfaction is down among low earners in the UK, despite the minimum wage raising levels of pay. Photograph: PeopleImages/Getty Images/iStockphoto

Despite what some lurid headlines claim, we don’t all hate our jobs. I like mine because I get to read great papers from the Resolution Foundation team, including one showing job satisfaction hasn’t been falling and four out of five of us think our job is “helpful to others”.

But it also showed those averages hide job satisfaction falls among low earners, whose work has become more stressful and intense in recent decades.

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