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Nearly 90% of UK workers looking for a new job
Totaljobs: ‘While we’ve seen increased activity on Totaljobs from businesses actively recruiting, for those looking for work, the challenge of having to stand out from the crowd remains’.
Read this postMore women than men feeling work related stress
LinkedIn: ‘The pandemic is taking a particularly heavy toll on women and their careers. We’ve already seen that women have been more likely to lose their jobs in this recession’.
Read this postSome self-employed still missing out on government Covid support
IPSE: ‘After almost a year, there are still drastic gaps in the support available to the self-employed, with over 1.5 million sole directors, newly self-employed people and others still excluded’.
Read this postDecember saw employer’s hiring confidence grow
In the three months to November, 56% of employers who hired temp agency workers said they used them to manage uncertainty, up from 41% a year earlier.
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SIGN UPExperiment shows it takes 3.5 minutes for people to notice their WiFi is down
Comparethemarket.com: ‘Lockdown has unsparingly seen a surge in the number of people relying on the internet for work and leisure’.
Read this postGaps in self-employed support has left sector ‘undermined and diminished’, says IPSE
IPSE: ‘This is especially worrying to see now because historically, it has always been the self-employed who have driven the economy in hard times, using their flexible skills to kickstart businesses and new projects.’
Read this postNumber of self-employed continues to decline
IPSE: ‘We and other organisations have proposed numerous solutions to support these groups: government must urgently look again at these to rescue the many excluded freelancers who are still clinging on through savings and loans’.
Read this postLockdown didn’t have a negative impact on London hiring
Data shows that 29.1% of recruitment activity amongst the city’s largest firms was for IT professionals – this is mainly due to the increased demand for staff to facilitate remote working practices.
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