A poll for the TUC has provided damning evidence of how far most people’s work is from being a ‘great’ job.

The TUC commissioned the nationally representative poll of over 3,000 people to explore the UK experience of work. It found just one in six workers said they have a great job overall. One in ten respondents said their management doesn’t take health and safety seriously in the workplace. Over one in ten said that bullying, harassment and discrimination happen at their workplace without management dealing with it. And four in ten workers said management didn’t consult them on major changes in the workplace.

According to the TUC: “We think every job should be a great job. Great jobs don’t just matter for working people – they matter to employers too. People with great jobs were more likely to be satisfied with their jobs, more likely to say they had a good manager, and be less likely to be planning to leave. That’s why the TUC has set up the Great Jobs Agenda, which shows what needs to happen to make every job a great job.”

The TUC added: “We’ve set out the changes we need to see at a political level, alongside what union activists can do now to make a change in their workplace.”