Sometimes you have to take those figures with a pinch of salt and it's also very important to look at the actual jobs being created. My place take on quite a few people on a regular basis. Great! Trouble is they're almost always zero hour contract jobs where the poor cunts are only guaranteed 8 hours a week, have shifts cancelled last minute, get sent home after four hours if they've made it into work and the job goes tits up, (doesn't matter a jot if it's 3 o'clock in the morning and they've no transport or even if they're male or female), they are under more pressure to do unreasonable requests or face not getting shifts, I have absolutely no idea how they get on with stuff like working tax credits/housing benefits etc as there's no way any social benefits system could keep up with the often weekly variances in work. There's far more of these jobs around I'm afraid. When a permanent employee leaves, which happens regularly once they can get their pension, maybe a 1/4 if that are replaced by zero hours lads getting made full time. This and the general 'gig economy' isn't something to be celebrated, man. It's fucking shit and other than niche jobs or the odd example like yourself where it suits your circumstances, I'm afraid the majority who I see living this way are anything but happy.