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YEREVAN, AUGUST 14, ARMENPRESS. A study has found that more than a third of British workers believe their jobs are meaningless – to the surprise of the anthropologist who inspired the research by advocating his theory on the ‘phenomenon of bullshit jobs’. Armenpress reports the aforementioned, referring to “The Independent”.
“20 to 25 per cent was what I was thinking it would when I wrote my piece. It’s much higher than I expected,” he said.
The anthropologist’s central premise is that people are doing jobs which are unnecessary because society has attached a “moral value” to work in itself, something which must be done for its own sake, even if it is not enjoyable. But most of those who said they found their job to be meaningless said it was unlikely they would change it in the next year – 53 per cent – compared to 35 per cent who said they would consider it.