Then you need to get into advertising, where, according to a new survey, those in the industry believe only 57% of their co-workers are up to the job
The future of work? Bafflement, idleness and seething resentment, according to a survey by Dropbox, who make that folder on your desktop that is sort of in your computer – but also sort of not. They’re well-placed to know how dumb we really are: after all, they regularly have to explain Dropbox to people.
The company polled 2,000 professionals, across a range of sectors, and found that on average they believed a third of those they worked with were no good at their job. Top was advertising, where only 57% of people were considered capable, while in IT, 39% of workers didn’t trust their colleagues, followed by 38% of estate agents. The most competent sectors on the list were construction workers and paramedics, which says as much about human nature as the work itself: the guy who drops the rivet gun into the cement gets found out pretty quickly. But up at the top end of the corporate ladder, in the kinds of jobs where we have very little ability to measure what anyone is even doing day to day, it’s a different story. Get into the boardroom and you’re hovering at 58%.
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