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08/19/2026

Midlife sleep disturbance carries a nine-month workforce cost. UK HR boards take note.

A longitudinal study from the University of Turku, covered by The Guardian in August 2026, quantifies what occupational health practitioners in the United Kingdom have long suspected but rarely been able to price: disturbed sleep in midlife ...

08/19/2026

7 min

Fair Work Agency and the bogus self-employment push: what gig workers need to know

If you drive for a delivery app, rent a chair at a salon, or pick shifts through a platform, the paperwork probably labels you self-employed even when the day-to-day feels indistinguishable from a conventional job. A joint report from the Fabian ...

08/19/2026

7 min

ONS and HMRC PAYE data: private sector real pay is still falling in August 2026

The figure on your payslip may have grown since last year, but for a significant share of private sector workers across the UK, that number is buying less than it did twelve months ago. The joint HMRC and Office for National Statistics (ONS) PAYE ...

08/18/2026

7 min

REC data confirms UK summer jobs rebound, but starter roles lag behind

Bars are hiring. Festival crews are hiring. Hotel front desks across coastal England are pinning up vacancy cards. If you have spent recent weeks scrolling job boards and quietly worrying the British summer job had disappeared for good, the data ...

08/18/2026

7 min

UK to scale SEN supported internships as youth jobs crisis deepens

Nearly 1 million 16-to-24-year-olds in the UK are currently classified as NEET (not in employment, education or training), the highest level in a decade. Against that figure, England currently runs just 4,500 supported internship places for ...

08/18/2026

8 min

1.25m young UK workers could be jobless or out of school by 2030

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) estimated that 1.012 million people aged 16 to 24 were not in education, employment or training (NEET) between January and March 2026, a rise of 89,000 year on year. New modelling from The Coders Guild, a ...

08/18/2026

7 min

Working from home deepens loneliness for young UK workers

If you are under 30 and working mostly from your bedroom, kitchen table, or a quiet corner of a shared flat, the data has finally caught up with what you already feel. Young men now spend roughly 6.5 hours of their waking day alone. Young women, ...

08/13/2026

6 min

UK builds AI jobs 'early warning' data system as workers worry

The AI Security Institute (AISI) has signed a one-year commercial contract with workforce data specialist Revelio Labs, valued at £96,000 and starting on 21 August 2026, to build what the procurement notice describes as an early warning c...

08/13/2026

8 min

Border Security Act 2025 rewires contractor compliance for UK HR teams

From 1 October 2026, the expansion of right-to-work obligations under the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Act 2025 pulls self-employed contractors, agency workers, and platform-matched labour into the same verification regime that ...

08/10/2026

6 min

UK graduate hiring hits pandemic lows as AI literacy bar rises

Graduate vacancies across the United Kingdom have fallen to their weakest point for this time of year since 2020, dropping around 7% below the equivalent period in 2025, according to Indeed's mid-year UK labour market update. The timing is ...

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