At least, this is what a survey conducted by the Training and Development Agency for Schools in the UK revealed (full results below).
According to The Guardian, reasons given for 60% finding their jobs tedious were the lack of challenge, and not using their knowledge or skills.
At UCT, one sees more and more graduates being employed into administrative careers. Aside from those already there, studying - often higher degrees - on the side. But whereas the likes of Castells point to underemployment as the driver of the knowledge economy, through people with more capacity than the job demands thinking of better ways of doing things and redesigning / adding value to their work - an over-rigid, bureaucratised environment restricts autonomy and flexibility and inhibits the kind of control over one's work that that requires. And each manilla envelope that arrives, each tweaked form, each new piece of software and each additional article from Harvard Business Review or Sloan Management Review that some member of the Senior Leadership Group reads, reduces that flexibility just that little bit more.
Anyone for a nice exciting career in banking?
The graduates most likely to be bored at work, according to profession
Thursday July 27, 2006
EducationGuardian.co.uk
1 Administrative/secretarial
2 Manufacturing
3 Sales
4 Marketing/advertising
5 IT/telecommunications
6 Science research/development
7 Media
8 Law
9 Engineering
10 Banking/finance
11 Human resources
12 Accountancy
13 Hospitality/travel
14 Healthcare
15 Teaching· Results from a new survey by the Training and Development Agency for Schools