Average advertised salaries have dropped to a year-long low, as companies shift emphasis from recruitment to retention, and reward their recession veterans with long overdue pay rises, according to the latest UK Job Market Report from Adzuna.co.uk
New research from Mind makes for uncomfortable reading – the mental health charity has found that more than 1 in 7 of us (15 per cent) who receive work emails sometimes check them while in the toilet. An online YouGov poll of 1,095 English and Welsh workers also showed that nearly 2 in 5 (38 per cent) of those who receive work emails admitted that they often checked them outside of work
When the recession began in 2008, the British and worldwide economies both suffered. Companies were soon making job cuts and one of the first by-products of this was that the recruitment industry had plenty of new candidates but no roles to place them in
Employers are continuing to increase wages by just 2% at their annual pay reviews, the latest data released today (Friday) by pay analysts at XpertHR shows
Landmark research has identified that not only are we heading toward a 7.5 million skills gap by 2022[1], but just over a million people aged 50+ have been pushed out of work involuntarily[2] and are actively looking to return to the workplace. These missing million older workers could potentially boost the UK economy by £88 billion, if they were able to stay in work for longer
98 per cent of employers intend to maintain or increase their use of temps in the next quarter as overall demand for staff continues to rise, according to the latest JobsOutlook survey by the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC)
