The UK jobs market has seen the significant down turn in jobs advertised and vacancies filled compared to a year ago. Many factors are at play, including skills shortages in certain sectors. As workforces shrink at an unprecedented pace, many employees are finding it increasingly difficult to strike a healthy work-life balance. In fact, 85% […]

The Covid-19 crisis has led to the biggest annual employment fall for workers over 50 since the 1980s, according to a new report by the Resolution Foundation. The report ‘A U-Shaped Crisis’ – supported by the Nuffield Foundation – examines the economic impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on older workers, and how periods of unemployment can affect […]

Despite unemployment continuing to be the lowest it has been in more than 40 years, British workers are expected to receive one of the lowest salary increases across Europe as we come into the new year, according to the latest Salary Trends Report. The report by ECA International has shown that the UK is trailing far […]