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We have unprecedented ability to choose a job or profession, but down-sizing, temping and short-term contracts now mean that the average job lasts 4 years only. If you have children and a mortgage this makes for a stressful and very un-Epicurean life. Moreover, modern jobs are increasingly dull and unrewarding. Studies have shown that two …
Last July angry French farmers, who get the lion’s share of EU subsidies, were out on the roads again, stopping lorries carrying produce from Germany and Spain, tipping the contents onto the tarmac. Much of the EU subsidy goes to a few wealthy cereal producers; the rest of France’s farmers are losers in a brutal …
A team of anthropologists at University College London interviewed hundreds of couples in two hunter-gatherer tribes, the Palanan Agta of the Philippines and Congo’s Mbendjele BaYaka, as well as the Filipino farming tribe the Paranan, which is a patriarchal society. These people offer a strong approximation of the lifestyles and communities of our oldest ancestors …
44% of British workers aged 20-39 have, in the past five years, lied about being sick in order get a day off work, compared to just 12% of those over 50. 29% of workers aged 20-39 consider “sickies” to be “additional holidays” that they deserve. (RIAS/Daily Mail) This is hardly new. I remember reviewing employee attendance and noticed that one …
A manager with France’s national railway company SNCF who has been paid €60,000 a year, to stay at home and do “nothing” for the past 12 years has sued the firm for €500,000 in lost earnings. Charles Simon, 55, says he was shunted “into a cupboard” – put on indefinite paid gardening leave – after …
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