What’s the biggest challenge facing employers today? Is it survival? Growth? Technology? Recruiting skilled staff? The answer, of course, depends on who you ask. To state the obvious, the challenges faced by a drilling firm in Aberdeen are vastly different …
Welcome to One Minute Monday – our look at a fact, statistic, or topic from the employment and skills world – gone in sixty seconds. There is tremendous speculation about the effects that artificial intelligence (AI) and automation will have …
In these quick weekly posts we offer you bite-sized findings from our world-leading labour market research. Our labour market forecasts show that while demand for high skilled jobs are due to increase over the next decade, middle skilled jobs are …
Welcome to One Minute Monday, our weekly blog where we explain a key fact from our research in under one minute! Women get paid less per hour than men across the vast majority of occupational sectors, despite the fact women outperform …
Welcome the first One Minute Monday of 2016! This week we examine UK productivity in just one very productive minute. Improving the UK’s productivity is something that the Chancellor prioritised in his ‘Fixing the Foundations’ plan for the economy. Productivity …
Welcome to our One Minute Mondays: we showcase a statistic or trend from the world of employment and skills in a bitesize form. Women outperform men at all levels of education. A greater proportion of girls than boys receive at …
Want to expand your knowledge of employment and skills in the next 60 seconds? Read on... Apprenticeships provide a way of learning while earning, as well as helping apprentices into work by equipping them with the job specific skills employers’ …
This is our One Minute Monday blog - where, once a week, we outline a fact from our research in under 60 seconds! The health and social care sector is one of the largest in the UK, employing over 4 …
Got a spare minute? Interested in employment and skills? You’ve come to the right place! This is our One Minute Monday, where we outline a fact from our research in under 60 seconds. The proportion of the UK’s working population without …
Welcome to our One Minute Monday blog, where we explain one fact or figure from our research in under 60 seconds! The retail sector is a massive part of the UK economy. In 2014 it contributed £90 billion to the …
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