Zero hours contracts, an agreement whereby employers can hire staff with no guarantee of work1, have been hitting the headlines for some time now. We wanted to go beyond the news to uncover how unemployed adults felt about these contracts. In new research out from Glassdoor2, we sought to find out what people think of jobs where there is no guarantee of work and understand how likely they are to accept this type of contract, why they would accept them or not, and how practical they are as an employment option.
Below are eight things you didn’t know about zero hours contracts:
- Nearly half would rather stay unemployed
- They aren’t guaranteed to be better than benefit payments
- People don’t trust them
- Irregular working hours are good for 19 percent, but don’t suit everyone
- Some would work harder despite reputation
- Accepting an offer is normally a necessity rather than a choice
- Many don’t even know the implications
- Some people actually quite like them