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Recession 'has changed overtime culture'
By Jessica Jenkins
Engineering recruitment patterns could change as the recession has altered working culture, according to one employment expert.
Overtime has fallen significantly and many people have moved to short-term working and taken pay cuts n a bid to keep their job, explains Duncan Brown, director of reward services at the Institute for Employment Studies.
He suggests that overtime will be offered again when the economy recovers, but employers will consider their options carefully.
"Why in a manufacturing environment do we give people an incentive to take longer to complete their work?" Mr Brown questioned.
"Why don't we give them an incentive to complete the work in normal hours and reward them if they do that, rather than giving them an incentive to take longer to do it?"
According to the Trades Union Congress the number of people working paid overtime in the UK has fallen by nearly half a million in the past 12 months to under four million.
Engineering recruitment patterns could change as the recession has altered working culture, according to one employment expert.
Overtime has fallen significantly and many people have moved to short-term working and taken pay cuts n a bid to keep their job, explains Duncan Brown, director of reward services at the Institute for Employment Studies.
He suggests that overtime will be offered again when the economy recovers, but employers will consider their options carefully.
"Why in a manufacturing environment do we give people an incentive to take longer to complete their work?" Mr Brown questioned.
"Why don't we give them an incentive to complete the work in normal hours and reward them if they do that, rather than giving them an incentive to take longer to do it?"
According to the Trades Union Congress the number of people working paid overtime in the UK has fallen by nearly half a million in the past 12 months to under four million.