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The silent crisis in our workplace no one’s talking about

Tim Duggan Work columnist November 13, 2025 — 1.11pm

Cast your mind back to the first job you had. It may have been decades ago, or closer in time, but I bet you can still remember some of the tasks you did because no one else wanted to. Data entry, answering phones, transcribing, or learning the basic skills of the job from the ground up.

But now entering the workforce from the bottom is under threat from an underreported crisis we’re not talking nearly enough about: early career positions appear to be vanishing, and nothing is replacing them.

Let’s establish some of the facts first. There are currently fewer jobs available for workers who have recently graduated from university, w

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