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Unemployment remains at a five-year high as more people are looking for work. Payrolled employment continues to fall in retail and hospitality, alongside other parts of the private sector, while real pay growth is slowing.
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Unemployment is edging upwards as hiring remains weak. Payrolled employment continues to fall, though at a slower rate, and vacancies appear to have stabilised.
There’s some good news in today’s figures, with record pay growth in the private sector just about keeping wages ahead of inflation, and unemployment continuing to fall to its lowest since 1974.
IES is pleased to announce the launch of a new Trials Unit, dedicated to supporting organisations to test and evaluate new approaches and apply evidence of what works.
This morning’s Labour Market Statistics are disappointing overall (again). The further sharp fall in unemployment disguises an unexpectedly large rise in the number of people out of work and not looking for work.
This morning’s Labour Market Statistics, covering October 2021 to January 2022, continue to disappoint. A further sharp fall in unemployment, now close to its pre-pandemic record, has masked a further growth in ‘economic inactivity’ as the labour force has continued to shrink overall.
In this paper, Duncan Brown highlights four shifts underway in HR’s role and response to Covid-19
A summary of the recent HR Network event looking at what we are learning about managing a hybrid workforce
Despite vacancies hitting another record high, employment is still stuck more than half a million below pre-pandemic levels, with low unemployment appearing to be the result of people leaving the labour market entirely.
Today’s jobs figures are disappointing. Despite record vacancies, employment is unchanged on the figures reported last month while economic inactivity appears to be rising.
Over the course of 2021, IES has provided insight to our HR Network members on how the pandemic is affecting employers and our workforce through our Perspectives papers.
We’ve never seen jobs being filled at a faster rate than now, with three quarters of a million people starting a new job every month since Covid restrictions were eased.
