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Cost of living crisis prompts almost a third of UK workers to take second job

Nearly third of workers in the UK are seeking to work two jobs to support themselves as the cost of living crisis sends prices of essentials soaring.

by | 28 Jul, 2022

Thirty-two per cent of workers are aiming to take on a second job in addition to their current job to make more money, a national survey of 2000 people by online jobs marketplace Indeed Flex found, according to Bloomberg. 

Nineteen per cent of those polled work a temporary second job, with many wanting to take on further shifts. Almost a fifth of London workers, 17 per cent, are aiming to do a second job, the highest in the whole of the UK.

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