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While the overall level of employment is set to grow across the UK within the next year, real wages are very likely to fall for a good number of employees, data from the latest quarterly CIPD/Adecco Group Labour Market Outlook has been able to suggest. Statistical figures revealed that the net employment balance, while remaining […]

Integrated workforce management systems can help significantly improve management processes and save companies time and money, experts have argued. Real estate, facilities and labour costs represent a large fraction of most companies’ annual spends. By implementing a comprehensive integrated workforce management system, companies can do more than just reduce costs, but also significantly bolster personal […]

Teachers’ attendance records will become compulsory for evaluations in New Mexico, USA, after a judge ruled the evaluation system needed to be more uniform, a news report has been able to suggest. Before, state officials gave school districts the option to use attendance as an alternative to considering surveys of parents and students. However, the […]

One of the UK’s largest and best-known upmarket retail chains has revealed plans to create up to 5,000 new temporary jobs across the country, a business news report has been able to suggest. Waitrose, a part of the John Lewis Partnership, has revealed that new recruits will make up approximately 2,500 of these roles and […]

Despite a slight rise in unemployment over the two months following the EU membership referendum, the UK labour market continues to be strong, recent data from the CBI/Pertemps Labour Market Update October 2016 report has been able to suggest. Employment rose over the quarter to August to 31.8 million and the employment rate was 74.5% […]

UK firms are increasingly affected by skills shortages caused by the lack of suitable candidates, according to new figures which suggest availability of candidates has fallen for the 41st consecutive month. The Recruitment and Employment Confederation’s (REC) monthly poll of 400 jobs consultancies found that 28 per cent saw skills shortages for ongoing roles worsen […]

Despite a significant fall in the level of business confidence across UK firms, hiring intentions for both permanent and temporary staff remain strong, a new report from the Recruitment & Employment Confederation (REC) suggests. The paper points out that, out of all the organisations surveyed for the report, in the three months to August, 34 […]

Personnel management solutions and time and attendance systems could potentially help mitigate the low-productivity effects brought about by the continuous decline of public sector employment. The number of public sector workers in the UK has fallen to 5.3 million, according to the latest 2016 UK Labour Market report from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), […]

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) across Liverpool will likely create up to 7,000 new jobs until 2020, a new report for npower Business by Capital Economics can suggest. This flurry of new companies is also likely to add an additional billion pounds each year to the local economy, while the research also found that the […]

Workforce management systems enabling companies to manage their staff in a more flexible manner will certainly become a lot more popular in the near future, as more and more SMEs are faced with hard choices when faced with effects of the living wage rises. Managers and company owners in the small business segment have warned […]

The current skills shortage in the construction industry is negatively impacting the quality of workmanship, as well as having a critical impact on most companies’ budgets, a recent news report has been able to suggest. The Scape Group’s ‘Sustainability in the Supply Chain’ report, which surveyed over 150 contractors, subcontractors and senior managers at public […]

Being able to accurately and precisely monitor employee attendance is a vital feature for distribution centre managers, who require exact information on the number of people on site at any given moment, to be able to forecast manning levels, etc. This will also apply to Online grocery retailer Ocado is set to create more than […]