Employees no longer think large corporate companies will give them job security, a new survey has revealed.
The survey, from peer-to-peer website Workology.com and research company Populus, showed that 53% of adults no longer trust large corporates to afford them the job security they require, while three in five adults view self-employment as a way of controlling how they work and 42% of web users anticipate they will exploit the internet more for ‘work-related reasons’.

Sam Gyimah, founder of Workology.com, said: “We are in a transitional age where trust in the workplace is moving away from established but impersonal institutions towards more personal and less formal relationships.  

“We’ve come to the end of the nice decade typified by cheap flights, digital music and movies, poking each other on social networking sites.  With the economy slowing we are likely to see the web change to meet a new set of consumer demands, which are less about enjoyment and fulfilment and more about basic productivity.”