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Eight out of 10 workers believe that Brexit is having, or will have, an impact on employment in their city, new research reveals.

This is leaving more than half of people gloomy about job prospects in their local area.

Our brilliant website Fish4jobs carried out a survey of 2,000 Brits to find out how people feel ahead of our EU departure.

Grafters in Derry, Northern Ireland, are the least optimistic as less than one in five are confident about work there.

That’s compared to Aberdeen where the workforce is most buoyant as more than eight out of 10 are feeling positive.

Two in five employees don’t believe the company they work for will grow over the next two years and a pessimistic one in 10 worry whether their employer will manage to stay in business.

Over half of people don’t expect a pay rise this year and are gloomy because that effectively means they’ll be earning less as prices rise.

Should the worst happen and workers lose their current job, a quarter think it will take them at least three months to find a new one, while one in eight say they’d struggle to gain a job elsewhere.

Sarah El-Doori from Fish4jobs, said: “Men have traditionally been more confident about their ability to find a job, but it’s concerning to see people’s lack of optimism about being employed as it has a detrimental effect on the job market and the economy.

“If people are nervous to move jobs because they lack the optimism that they will find another role successfully, this impacts on the flow of new people coming in and employees moving on within a business.”