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  I bet the figures below are all counted as employed and rather blows #60's myth out of the water.
  
  
  Almost a fifth of British businesses have admitted to using unpaid interns to "get work done more cheaply" and prop up company profits during the recession, according to a new survey.
  
  The research, carried out by YouGov on behalf of Internocracy - a social enterprise that develops work experience schemes for employers - found that 17% of UK businesses had taken on interns to use as a cheap source of labour, while 95% of the 218 UK managers who responded agreed that interns were "useful to their organisation".
  
  The Internocracy study also found that only 12% of company managers and 10% of young people knew unpaid internships could be illegal under employment law.
  
  "It's a real shame that young people don't know their employment rights," said Internocracy's chief executive, Becky Heath. "Conversely it is disappointing that businesses don't understand what interns are worth and the new talent, energy and enthusiasm they bring to the workplace."
  
  Earlier this month Nick Clegg, the deputy prime minister, argued that unpaid internships were promoting a crisis of social mobility, in doing so apparently contradicting the views of the coalition's Conservative prime minister David Cameron.
  
  The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development estimated that last summer there were a quarter of a million interns working in UK companies, with the vast majority believed to be unpaid positions.

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