British employers have been told to concentrate more on stamping out poor grammar and spelling at work, in a new report. The survey from the Department for Education and Skills has found that four out of ten employers took more care to prevent employees chewing gum and flirting than they did to improve literacy. And despite hundreds of thousands of graduates applying for positions in the UK, especially in the areas of IT sales and media sales, there are still concerns that one in four job applications contained errors. Some of the most common included confusing 'their', 'there' and 'they're', while some CVs and applications also increasingly contained words such as 'ain't' and 'gonna'. "They [employers] must do more to police poor spelling and grammar in the workplace, as this is the first step in tackling the problem and raising standards," said Phil Hope, skills minister. "Concerns around the level of reading, writing and maths skills should be right up there with managing absence and staff morale."
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