{"id":53532,"date":"2023-11-28T14:18:49","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T14:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=53532"},"modified":"2023-11-28T14:18:49","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T14:18:49","slug":"brits-dont-want-to-do-manual-labour-anymore-farmers-are-hiring-tajiks-and-uzbeks-unfazed-by-5am-starts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2023\/11\/28\/brits-dont-want-to-do-manual-labour-anymore-farmers-are-hiring-tajiks-and-uzbeks-unfazed-by-5am-starts\/","title":{"rendered":"Brits &#8216;don&#8217;t want to do manual labour anymore&#8217;: Farmers are hiring Tajiks and Uzbeks unfazed by 5am starts"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-53533\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/pickers-300x186.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/pickers-300x186.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/pickers-770x477.jpeg 770w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/pickers-1024x635.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/pickers-360x223.jpeg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/pickers.jpeg 1034w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Farmers are finding it &#8216;impossible&#8217; to hire work-shy Brits to pick their crops &#8211; and are now recruiting hardy workers from thousands of miles away to fill in. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/money\/other\/brits-don-t-want-to-do-manual-labour-anymore-farmers-are-hiring-tajiks-and-uzbeks-unfazed-by-5am-starts-weather-and-long-hours-picking-fruit-and-veg-because-it-s-impossible-to-recruit-locals-as-one-foreign-worker-reveals-he-s-bought-two-homes\/ar-AA1kFlE8?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=LCTS&amp;cvid=53e45d2a4bb64c85977b13aba98f8065&amp;ei=28\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Farmers are finding it &#8216;impossible&#8217; to hire work-shy Brits to pick their crops &#8211; and are now recruiting hardy workers from thousands&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-53532","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cost-of-living-crisis"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/pickers.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53534,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53532\/revisions\/53534"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}