Readers' Blog: Jobs data hide soul-destroying and badly paid work

As Ireland’s unemployment rate drops, one could be forgiven for thinking that people are being offered fulfilling jobs that provide financial and emotional ballast. Not so.

Readers' Blog: Jobs data hide soul-destroying and badly paid work

As Ireland’s unemployment rate drops, one could be forgiven for thinking that people are being offered fulfilling jobs that provide financial and emotional ballast. Not so.

Welcome to the Ireland’s jobs phantasmagoria. Fantasy drowns reality in a vat of vacuous jobs titles like ‘customer success guru’, or, ‘people manager’, and a wage unlikely to give your bank account financial indigestion.

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