Firms "strongly advised" graduates to take temporary jobs, training courses or even unpaid work if they could not find employment, rather than continue with their studies or taking a gap year.

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Studies over the past decade show that people who work at home or outside the office tend to work longer hours, contrary to employers' initial fears.

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Peter Hill, a consultant child psychiatrist, says that some patients wait 18 months for therapeutic help despite studies in America which show that behavioural therapy can work, on its own or combined with low doses of drugs.

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There's always the threat of batteries running out or a device breaking, and US studies have suggested Braille users are more likely to find work because they have a "greater grasp of literacy", Osborne says.

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