[Trekkie101-B]

The ONS get some of their data on jobs by surveying a ton of companies each month. However the survey has gone from being a page or two to around 10 pages.

I sense the data quality being returned may have fallen off a cliff edge.

[leereeves]

Why would more data imply worse data?

[ooklala]

I think the implication is that it’s gotten so long that people can’t be bothered to finish filling it out… (Anecdotally I can back this up—the one time I’ve remembered to fill it out in time, it took like 10 minutes…I haven’t bothered to fill it since)

[leereeves]

Oh, I assumed it was mandatory, like tax returns or the census.

[eightysixfour]

People don’t fill out the 10 pages accurately, they just want it off their to-do list.

[matt-p]

Because it lands on the desk of the head of HR, assistant to the COO, or MDs desk and in all honesty there not going to spend more than half an hour on it - so you've got 30 mins / number of questions.

[IshKebab]

Because people aren't form-filling robots.

[ludicrousdispla]

hey, I just had an HN AI startup idea! /s

[ludicrousdispla]

if you fill in the questionnaire indicating that everything is great then nothing needs improvement