Workers within the UK are a few of the least job oriented individuals on the planet, in response to a brand new examine. 

Research has discovered that lower than one in 4 individuals assume their profession ought to come first of their lives.

Overall, 73% of Britons polled within the World Values Survey stated work was an essential a part of their lives - in comparison with 96% in Italy and 94% in France.

Only 22% of these UK employees stated their jobs ought to at all times come first, even when it means much less spare time.

Between 1981 and 2022, the share of the British public who stated it might be a great factor if much less significance was positioned on work rose from 26% to 43%.

The outcomes, which have been analysed by the Policy Institute at Kings College London, additionally discovered generational variations in attitudes in direction of employment.

Professor Bobby Duffy, director of the Policy Institute at King's College London, stated: "Older generations are more likely to say work should be prioritised, even as it becomes less important in their own lives as they move into retirement.

"Millennials, in distinction, have change into rather more sceptical about prioritising work as they've made their approach by their profession.

"There will be a number of explanations for these shifts, from the nostalgia that tends to grow as we age, in thinking younger generations are less committed than we were, and the long-term economic and wage stagnation that will lead younger generations to question the value of work."

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More than half of millennials, individuals of their late 20s to early 40s, stated it might be a great factor if much less significance was positioned on work, an increase from 31% in 2005.

But solely 34% of child boomers, individuals aged of their late 50s and 70s, agree - and simply 22% of the pre-war era.

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