Number Of Temporary Workers Falls To 1.6m
The number of temporary workers in the UK has fallen to 1.6m according to latest data from the Office of National Statistics. By comparison, temporary workers peaked at 1.7m in 2021, as businesses navigated the pandemic. Today’s figures are a fall of 0.4% compared to the last quarter, and a decrease of 1.4% compared to the […]
Official Statistics Show Decline In Temporary Workers
Latest figures from the Office of National Statistics shows that the number of temporary employees in the UK fell by approximately 29,000 in the April-June 2023, compared to the January-March 2023 period. Total employment fell by 66,000 jobs to 32.9 million during the same period, and the UK’s unemployment rate edged up to 4.2% from […]
Temps Continue To Prop Up The Economy
Today’s ONS labour market data show our increasing reliance on temporary workers, who’s numbers have increased by 7.7% on a seasonally adjusted basis to approximately 1.67 million for the three-month period from December 2021 to February 2022. The number of temps as a percentage of total employment was 5.97%, up from 5.61% when compared to […]
Why Are People Aged 50+ Leaving Employment?
Clue: it’s not always through choice. We already know that older workers were more likely to be furloughed than their younger colleagues, and today the Office of National Statistics has published their latest data on why workers aged 50+ are leaving employment. The majority (77%) of adults aged 50 to 59 years said they left […]
Construction Output Through The Roof in 2021
Annual construction output increased by a record 12.7% in 2021 compared with 2020, mainly as a result of the coronavirus pandemic contributing to a very weak 2020. However, a 12.7% rise after a 14.9% fall (in 2019) is a significant net fall of 4.2% over the two-year period. According to official figures, the 2% monthly rise […]
Temps Are Powering The Economy
Latest official figures show that the number of temporary workers increased by 9.32% for the three months from September to November 2021 compared to the same period one year prior. This is a significant jump and shows that temps are effectively powering the economy as businesses struggle to recruit permanent staff. The ONS workforce figures […]
Proportion of Low Paid Jobs Decreases
The proportion of low-paid jobs in the UK has fallen to 14.2% in 2021, compared to 15.7% the year prior. Ten years ago, the proportion of low-paid jobs in the UK’s labour market was 21.4%, so there has been a marked increase in average wages in the last decade, which continued during 2021 despite the […]
Job Vacancies At All-Time High
In today’s Office of National Statistics (ONS) labour market figures, we see that unemployment has plummeted, and job vacancies have soared to an all-time high of 1.2m in September. In the three months to September, vacancies grew across most sectors driven by a jump in demand for workers by shop owners and wholesalers while motor […]
Latest ONS Labour Market Data
Today (14/09/21) the Office of National Statistics has issued their latest data on the UK’s labour market. It’s broadly good news as the UK post-pandemic recovery appears to be continuing. The number of job vacancies in June to August 2021 rose by 35% to 1,034,000, which is the first time vacancies have risen over 1 […]