Staff working out of serviced offices in Edinburgh may be some of the people who believe the difference between the wages of the highest and lowest-paid workers is too high, according to a poll from the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR).
Data from the High Pay Commission indicates that top executives usually earn approximately 145 times more than the average worker.
A large majority of respondents (78 per cent) stated that they would support government action to reduce this and 82 per cent of those said this legislation should apply to both the private and public sector.
The financial industry is behind many of the increases in executive pay over the last three decades, according to the report, entitled Getting what we deserve? Attitudes to pay reward and desert.
It claimed that the largest bonuses are paid to a small proportion of employees with ordinary workers generally receiving no extra money.
"Government and employers need to find better ways to make sure work is rewarded fairly," IPPR director Nick Pearce concluded.
