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Young Germans: PLEASE! ANYTHING BUT a digital STARTUP

But Spanish and Italian youths want to set them up themselves

Most young Germans do NOT want to work for a digital start up.

A new YouGov survey of 18-to-30-year-olds in six European countries – Germany, the UK, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and the Czech Republic – found that 70 per cent of young Germans would avoid working for an ICT startup.

Perhaps they don’t fancy the idea of working for a Mediterranean boss, as more than half of Spanish and Italian respondents (52 per cent and 55 per cent respectively) said they would consider setting up their own digital businesses.

Nearly 40 per cent of the 6,000 respondents in the UK and 33 per cent in Germany said they are definitely not willing to work in the ICT sector, while only eight per cent of respondents in Spain and 11 per cent in Italy said they definitely did not want careers in ICT.

Despite recent studies suggesting one-third of UK jobs could be lost to automation, young Brits are comparatively unconcerned. In Italy, 60 per cent are worried about losing their jobs to a robot army, in Spain it’s 49 per cent, but the Brit respondents are the least bothered – with just 31 per cent saying it is a concern.

Eighty-six per cent of young Britons think the benefits of digitisation outweigh the risks, but in Germany and the Netherlands only 69 per cent thought this.

Half of British respondents thought that tech should be taught in schools and that companies should be kept out of digital training. Just three per cent of UK respondents thought that companies should take the lead in digital skills training. ®

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