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Recruiters are the worst bosses in the UK

Recruiters are the worst bosses in the UK

The worst bosses in the UK work in the recruitment industry, according to a survey.

Approved Index has asked 1,400 employees across a range of different industries about their relationship with their bosses. The company found that people working in the recruitment industry are the most likely to quit their jobs because of a bad supervisor.

In fact, 100% of recruiters said that they had been forced to leave their job because of their boss at some point, City A.M. reported. The UK average of people saying that they have left their jobs because of their boss is 42%.

While recruiters may have the worst bosses in the UK, tourism and marketing are not far behind. Tourism came in second and marketing came third in the survey of the industries with the worst  employee-boss relationships. 77% of people working in tourism said that they have left their jobs because of their bosses. That number was 63% for people working in marketing.

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