Preparing for the next ‘new normal’ – How to retain and attract the best talent post-lockdown
As the latest UK employment overview from the ONS confirms, COVID-19 has truly set us on the path to a buyers’ market – but it is a buyers’ market with a difference. Despite the challenging climate, the skills shortage hasn’t disappeared so key professionals have...UK records biggest fall in working hours since 1971
The number of weekly working hours in the UK has fallen by 16.7%, the largest decrease since records began in 1971 with total hours dropping to their lowest level since the early summer of 1997. Total weekly hours have fallen by 175.3 million to 877.1 million hours...Disadvantaged areas see disproportionate amount of job seekers per vacancy
Twenty unemployed people are chasing every vacancy in disadvantaged areas of the UK, up from around four people per vacancy before the coronavirus hit. Analysis by the Institute for Employment Studies (IES) found the number of applications per vacancy increased to...
Budget 2020: Seven things employers may have missed
Given the covid-19 coronavirus has now been declared a pandemic by the World Health Organisation, chancellor Rishi Sunak’s Budget announcement yesterday was rightly focused on the how the government would support employers and workers as the UK attempts to contain the...