The survey also reveals that the range of time that job seekers can be unemployed before recruiters and hiring managers start souring on them is betweensixmonthsandayear, according to 36% of poll respondents.
Cherie Blair, a longtime employment and human-rights lawyer, points out that the current threshold for employees to bring claims is a compromise between the sixmonths set by the Labour government in 1975 and the two-year threshold brought in by the Thatcher administration in 1985.