Two interesting articles:

Factors showing real unemployment is higher than official figures.

Production workers have nothing to do.

# 185,000 workers in the June number were the product of statistical sampling, but could not be verified by the government.
# Companies are asking employees to take unpaid leave.
# 1.4 million unemployed workers weren’t counted because they’re not searching for work.
# Part-time employment has doubled to 9 million.
# The work week is 48 minutes shorter than when the recession began.
# The number of long-term unemployed (4.4 million) is at an all-time high.