Labour Market news in the UK | Page 3

An overview of news, trends and research in the category Labour Market in the UK:

Violence toward retail workers spikes during pandemic Data released by the representative body of the UK’s retail sector has shown that shopworkers were subjected to a sharp increase in abuse during the Covid-19 pandemic.
28 May 2021
Covid-19 sees more than 1 billion out of work globally Just over 1 billion adults lost their jobs or businesses as a result of the Covid-19 recession.
10 May 2021
Tenth of all mid-sized firms used furlough scheme ‘incorrectly’ An analysis of the UK’s job retention scheme has estimated that more than one-in-ten mid-sized businesses may have incorrectly applied for support.
23 April 2021
5,000 steel industry jobs at risk following Greensill collapse The collapse of Greensill Capital into administration has placed thousands of jobs in the UK’s steel industry in jeopardy.
15 March 2021
Women’s jobs hit hardest by Covid-19 The slow progress being made to equitably include women in the UK workforce is at risk of being obliterated by the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a new white paper.
10 March 2021
International Women’s Day: UK improves its female board representation The UK has become one of the leading nations for board level gender representation, according to a new study coinciding with International Women’s Day.
08 March 2021
400,000 jobs at risk due to high street slowdown The ailing UK retail market could see huge swathes of redundancies throughout 2021, according to a new study.
11 February 2021
Why Covid-19 is the beginning of the end of the 9 to 5 job The standard 9 to 5 working day has dominated the labour market for decades, but according to Roger Philby – the founder and chief executive of talent consultancy The Chemistry Group – lessons learne
29 January 2021
Two-thirds of public servants require new skills in next three years Around seven-in-ten public servants across Europe believe they can maintain or improve the standards of their service via remote work, according to a new study.
30 December 2020
Health and safety consultancy sees growth buoyed by pandemic An East Midlands health and safety consultancy has achieved rapid growth thanks to heightened demand for health and safety services amid the coronavirus pandemic.
01 December 2020
Working from home stifling learning, engagement and creativity Most companies have failed to adapt their learning culture to engage with employees digitally during lockdown, according to a new study.
25 November 2020
London the world’s second best city to live and work in London has once again been listed as one of the world’s best places to live and work.
18 November 2020
Half of UK financial services staff want shift to flexible working More than one-quarter of finance workers want to work from home full time once Covid-19 passes, while one-in-ten are looking to relocate following the pandemic.
04 November 2020
The 10 biggest interview mistakes, according to employers While many businesses spent the last four years complaining that there was a ‘talent shortage’ across the world’s largest economies, the criteria they set for applicants during the recruitment proces
11 September 2020
Stress and anxiety among drawbacks of digital working Digitalisation has been touted by some as a magic bullet, which companies can use to improve productivity simply by installing new products in a workplace.
10 September 2020
Working from home has lifted productivity and work-life balance Eden McCallum has released the third version of its Covid-19 survey series, revealing how the sentiment of European business leaders has changed over the past three weeks.
10 June 2020
Employee focus critical for banks during remote working Employee engagement was already a challenge for banks before the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, but with the unfolding of the crisis and its impact, the challenge has only become bigger.
04 June 2020
UK CEOs' lack of communication leaves staff in dark As UK businesses continue to endure stagnant productivity, bosses may be shooting themselves in the foot by failing to make their staff feel they can talk to them.
31 March 2020
IR35 concerns for businesses, contractors and the economy From April 2020, new changes to off-payroll working rules, commonly known as IR35, will be introduced.
25 February 2020
Lacking digital skills costs £10 billion in lost productivity The UK is facing a massive economic loss in productivity, resulting from a failure by bosses to invest in digital-orientated education in the workplace.
10 February 2020
The 50 best companies to work for in the UK Research among thousands of employees has revealed UK’s best companies to work for in 2020.
07 January 2020
Ecorys evaluates Public Employment Services Network The European Commission has engaged international advisory firm Ecorys to evaluate its Public Employment Services Network.
11 December 2019
Working fewer hours is not the route to better productivity Simply cutting hours will only provide an illusory boost, say Andrew Allum and Peter Ward, both partners at management consulting L.E.K. Consulting.
09 December 2019
UK firms struggle to foster 'hybrid workforces' Almost three-quarters of organisations believe combining automation with human labour is one of the biggest challenges they face, according to a new study.
05 December 2019
PwC supports up-skilling of Northern Ireland workforce Big Four professional services firm PwC has supported a £4.
05 December 2019
Gen Z more optimistic and relaxed than millennial workers The first wave of Generation Z – people born between 1995 and 2010 – are entering the workforce, and according to a survey by Korn Ferry, they are making a positive impression on their coworkers.
30 October 2019
Majority of UK staff 'would perform as well' with no boss Micromanaging bosses are leaving many employees craving more freedom to do their jobs, with two-thirds of workers stating they want more responsibility at work.
25 October 2019
Three Brexit trends to hit the UK labour market As uncertainty still surrounds the outcome of Brexit, with a potential No Deal scenario still on the cards as the clock ticks down, businesses face three key HR challenges in the coming months.
24 September 2019
IBM axes 800 jobs in the UK and sees profits slump Professional services firm IBM reduced its UK headcount by one in every 15 jobs throughout 2018, according to documents submitted to Companies House.
26 August 2019
AI to necessitate major re-skilling of workforce With a growing number of firms turning to artificial intelligence to cut costs and ramp up productivity, the business world is in danger of overlooking the need to up-skill today’s workforce for the
13 August 2019
Half of UK workplaces have no measures to deal with abuse Two years after the #MeToo movement burst onto the scene, progress in UK workplaces has been slow at best, while almost a third of workers in Britain feel their employer’s harassment policies have ac
09 August 2019
UK employment slows ahead of Brexit finale As the Brexit process seemingly enters its final act, with the delayed deadline of October 31st looming large, the outlook for UK employment has fallen to its lowest in more than a year.
09 August 2019

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