Is employer X (a university) better than employer Y(the NHS)???
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Is employer X better than employer Y??? To answer the above question I have compared two similar jobs, both related to scientific research but in two different organisations. Both employees had similar qualifications (PHD) and their job description mainly related to leading research activities within the organisation. The first employee works for a university (non-profit private organisation) and the second employee works in the NHS (public organisation, funded by the government) Both of the employees were interviewed using structures questions. The questions were exploring the following aspects of their jobs-: Provision of support, expectations and stress, pay conditions, holidays and time off, fringe benefits, progress prospect work environment etc. Interview number one -Tell me a bit about your job. I started my current job in 1996,originally I was mainly doing research myself with a small component of teaching involved, however over the years the proportion of hands on research has gone down and a bigger proportion...

