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Creating an Effective Skills Ecosystem to Future-Proof UK Productivity
The UK continues to face a long-standing productivity challenge, with persistent skills shortages and mismatches impeding growth across all major sectors. Building a robust skills ecosystem is vital - not only to fill vacancies but to future-proof the economy against rapid technological change, an ageing workforce and shifting global labour dynamics.
A guide to Project RPO
Project RPO applies the same vigour and delivery mechanisms that a full RPO would provide, however, aligned to a project of work typically encompassing single or multiple hires or volume pieces of work that are defined and ensuring all positions are filled.
RPO, Project & On-Demand Solutions
The impact of Covid-19 has had a heavy strain on the labour market throughout 2020, but a two-speed recovery is emerging.
Covid-19: The Face of Business Change
As workers begin to return to work, many companies will be rethinking the way they operate and the future of their workforce. We have been gathering thoughts and opinions to ensure our services continue to support strategic, operational and geographical objectives during this ever-changing landscape.
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Market Insights
Unemployment Falls Marginally
The labour market shows a gradual slowdown, with vacancies still above pre-pandemic levels, while pay rates remain high due to last year's inflation.
The labour market continues to cool
This month's labour market figures continue to show signs of gradual cooling, with the number of vacancies still falling and unemployment rising.
The labour market continues to show signs of cooling
This month’s figures continue to show signs that the labour market may be cooling. The number of vacancies continues to fall and is unemployment rising.
Unemployment and inactivity rise while pay plateaus (May)
The latest ONS data shows a largely unchanged labour market that remains tight overall but continues to slowly soften.
Unemployment and inactivity rise while pay plateaus
The latest ONS data covers the period from January to March 2024 and shows a largely unchanged labour market that remains tight overall but continues to slowly soften.
Wages outpace inflation while unemployment increases and vacancies continue to fall
The latest ONS data cover the period from May to July 2023 and show a labour market that remains tight but with increasing signs of softening. The employment rate decreased while both the unemployment and inactivity rate increased. Vacancies continue to fall although remain above pre-pandemic levels. Real time Pay-As-You-Earn data for August 2023 remained broadly unchanged from the previous quarter – with 30.1 million payrolled employees in the labour market.
Further increase in economic inactivity as pay growth continues to fall
The latest ONS data cover the period from June to August 2022 and show a labour market that is continuing to tighten, with the employment rate decreasing, unemployment decreasing, economic inactivity rising sharply and vacancies falling for the third quarter in a row.
Pay growth continues to disappoint and falls further behind inflation
The latest ONS data covers the period from February 2022 to April 2022, providing a snapshot of labour market activity.
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