2022 was plagued by labour shortages, industry strikes, and more job openings than ever before. In a panic, employers grasped at straws to try and fill their empty roles as…
Despite labour shortages, business closures, and a volatile job market, the recruitment sector proved prosperous last year, contributing ’£42.9 billion of direct Gross Value Added (GVA) to the UK economy…
2022 has been incredibly volatile for the job market. The first half of the year saw more job vacancies than people unemployed for the first time ever, amid a labour…
Is the cost-of-living crisis undoing all the progress from the pandemic? The pandemic was a worrying time for businesses across the UK but being forced to work from home opened…
For the first time in half a century, the official number of job vacancies is higher than the number of unemployed people. Between January and March this year, the UK…
‘Boomerang’ employees and hasty decisions In business news, quitting seems to be this season’s hottest topic. ‘Quiet quitting’, early retirement, switching industries, and people starting their own businesses, the Covid-19…
It’s been over a year since the UK emerged from its third Covid-19 lockdown, and commerce is still recovering. A decline in profits, redundancies, and some companies forced to close…
Notable businesswoman Sheryl Sandberg left Facebook (now Meta) last month to ‘parent her family of five children’ and ‘focus on philanthropy for women’. At 52-years-old, Sandberg is just one example…
If you’ve turned on the news recently, you might have seen multiple stories about hectic airports, huge security queues, and cancelled flights. The BBC reports that this disruption is ‘being…
