Ethics are more important to us than ever, according to new research, but fewer of us think those standards are met.
A Fire Inside, Channel 9The approaching bushfire season - not to mention their everyday heroics - offers a compelling reminder of why we hold firefighters in such high regard, with an ethics score of 82 placing them at the top end of the spectrum.
Now, you can keep moving through the gallery to count down the top 10 occupations Australians found to be the least ethical in the country."The first thing we'll do, let's kill all the lawyers." So wrote William Shakespeare, and while Australians may not go that far, and many of us will have need of some sort of legal assistance in our lifetime, we apparently don't perceive practitioners of the law to be overly burdened by ethics.
Lawyers actually increased their 2022 standing by three points, but still emerged with a score of nine, placing them in the "neither ethical nor unethical" category.Big business gets a few look-ins on this list, which probably comes as no surprise to many.GettyA fine local pedigree doesn't stop our negative perceptions of the ethics of directors of Australian companies. They also scored nine.
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