HR directors are reluctant to bring in extra help to cover staff holidays with 70% delegating tasks to other employees to manage workloads.
School leavers may be anxiously awaiting A level results this morning, but the TUC has claimed young people finishing school, college or university this summer are facing the toughest outlook since...
Yesterday the Office for National Statistics (ONS) reported the unemployment rate was 8.0% of the economically active population, down 0.2% on the quarter. There were 2.56 million unemployed people,...
In 1906 the economist Vilfred Pareto developed his ‘Pareto Principle’, more commonly known as the 80-20 rule.
Employment levels in the UK are continuing to rise, according to the Office for National Statistics, with the employment rate for those aged from 16 to 64 at 71% for the past quarter of 2012 (April to...
HM Revenue and Customs is to hire an additional 1,000 contact centre staff, in a bid to ensure 90% of calls are answered, its chief executive Lin Homer, has promised.
As young people contend with one of the worst job markets the UK has ever seen, a poll of 3,140 newly graduated and final year students by recruiter IntaPeople showed over two thirds (69%) have...
With GCSE and A-Level results due out shortly, many young people - and their parents - are considering their options for the future.
Latest analysis of the Labour Force Survey (LFS) shows that during the first three months of 2012 the number of paid employees in the sector increased by approximately 20,000, representing an increase...
A third of employers are maintaining staff levels higher than they need in order to avoid losing skills, but will make redundancies if economic growth does not return soon, according to a CIPD report...
It’s 2022. As the HR director of a large corporate you are writing your HR strategy for the next year and you begin by reflecting on the last 10-15 years of change.
Jobseeker confidence has “soared” in the past 12 months, with the number of unemployed confident in finding a job in the next year jumping from 51% in 2011 to 64%.
