It’s time we stopped exploiting interns and paid them for the hours worked

Sun, 30 Jul 2023 05:32:09 +1000

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

Andrew Pam
<https://theconversation.com/its-time-we-stopped-exploiting-interns-and-paid-them-for-the-hours-worked-208025>

"Many people, at some stage in their search for a career, have worked for free
in return for some much valued experience. But it’s surprisingly hard to find
exact numbers.

A 2016 national survey of 3,800 Australians found more than half (58%) of
respondents aged 18 to 29 and more than a quarter (26%) aged 30 to 64 had done
unpaid work at least once in the previous five years.

There is also data suggesting more than a third (37.4%) of Australia’s
university students are doing courses which involve real work as part of their
tertiary studies. In 2017 that amounted to 451,263 work-related learning
experiences.

This is not uniquely Australian. In 2013 an EU survey of 12,921 people found
46% aged from 18 to 35 had done at least one internship, with more than half of
those being unpaid."

Cheers,
       *** Xanni ***
--
mailto:xanni@xanadu.net               Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/                 Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/            Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/               Manager, Serious Cybernetics

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