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More New Zealanders are now working multiple jobs, in an attempt to cover everyday living costs.<\/p>\n
Employment Hero’s latest Annual Jobs Report found 33 percent of people have more than one role, the second highest globally after Australia 34 percent.<\/p>\n
Beyond poly-employment, many were also clocking up extra hours, with 43 percent of people saying they work overtime.<\/p>\n
Thirty percent of New Zealanders said they were working more than one job simply to earn enough money.<\/p>\n
The report is based on real-time aggregated and anonymised data from more than 2.5 million employees and 350,000-plus businesses globally.<\/p>\n
Country manager Neil Webster said the upwards trend of more people taking part-time or causal employment, and having multiple roles, could be down to demand and supply.<\/p>\n
“It is harder to survive on a part-time job than it was before, but it’s also an indication that employers’ confidence in hiring maybe isn’t quite where it should be either,” he said.<\/p>\n
“So they’re willing to commit to providing casual employment which is sort of easier to scale up and scale down.<\/p>\n
“If you don’t have a lot of confidence in the business in taking on full-time employees, you might resort to kind of employing people on a casual basis, which is a lot more flexible.<\/p>\n
“But as I said, it’s less secure. If you can’t get the hours that you need to sustain yourself, you have to take another job,” he said.<\/p>\n
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The recruitment company’s report also found it was not just a young person’s issue,with one in five of those aged 55+ working multiple jobs for financial reasons, while nearly half of 18-24 year olds (47%) were doing so.<\/p>\n
“I guess some of that will be driven by lifestyle choices, you know, people wanting to maybe have not a full-time gig as they kind of wind into retirement,”Webster said.<\/p>\n
“But some of it is maybe not by choice and simply a fact of what it is that they can find out there in the market, with it being harder and harder for older people to get secure full-time roles.<\/p>\n
“So we think there’s a bit of both happening there, but it’s definitely, again, an interesting trend in terms of things to manage.”<\/p>\n
Webster said this could have a knock-on effect for smaller and medium-sized businesses.<\/p>\n
“We talk to SME owners every day who feel the impact of poly-employment. More and more we’re hearing employees are exhausted.<\/p>\n
“This is where productivity takes a hit and businesses are left carrying the weight. When people are working nights and weekends just to keep up with the cost of living, it’s not sustainable.<\/p>\n
“For policymakers, cost-of-living support and SME-focused initiatives need to be front of mind. For businesses, the responsibility is to put real, accessible support in place for staff,” he said.<\/p>\n
Webster said it was important employees had access to Employee Assistance Programmes (EAPs) as having multiple commitments could cause stress, burnout and deteriorating wellbeing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo: 123RF More New Zealanders are now working multiple jobs, in an attempt to cover everyday living costs.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3092],"tags":[1816,51,9409,897,12,196,10975,10973,10974,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-467211","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jobs","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-current-affairs","11":"tag-jobs","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-podcasts","14":"tag-public-radio","15":"tag-radio-new-zealand","16":"tag-rnz","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115301962667673286","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}