WORKPLACES are still not offering flexibility, despite less workers remaining in one job for life, a report by Durham Business School has found.
The report, by Professor Simon Parker, found that during the past decade, there was little evidence of increased labour market flexibility in Britain.
During the past ten years the country saw a decline in multiple job holding, temporary contracts and part-time paid employment.
Prof Parker also found that the expectation that the 1990s and millennium would see more people striving for self-employment and a better work-life balance has also failed to materialise.
The study found that the number of self-employed men in Britain fell and the number of self-employed women remained the same.
Prof Parker believes British entrepreneurs can learn much from the US attitude to enterprise and entrepreneurship.
He said: "In the States, they have a much more positive attitude when things don't work out. It is not about how far you fall, but how high you bounce back."
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