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06/29/2026

Brexit at 10: 20,000 SME exits and what they mean for hiring

Ten years after the Brexit referendum, the labour-market consequences are no longer speculative. Between 16,000 and 20,000 UK businesses have stopped exporting to the EU since the Trade and Cooperation Agreement took effect, and the sectors ...

06/28/2026

7 min

Wales bucks UK FDI decline: what DBT's 75-project figure means for Welsh employers and job-seekers

On 23 June, the Department for Business and Trade (DBT) published its annual foreign direct investment statistics, and Wales produced the standout result: 75 foreign investment projects landed in Wales in 2025-26, generating more than 1,500 new ...

06/25/2026

7 min

CEO narcissism may be driving return-to-office mandates

For three years, return-to-office mandates across the UK have arrived dressed in the language of productivity: collaboration suffers at home, junior staff miss out on mentorship, culture erodes on video calls. Research from the Wharton School at ...

06/25/2026

6 min

UK has no maximum workplace temperature law: what to do

Britain is heading into a period of extreme heat, with the Met Office issuing warnings of temperatures approaching 40°C, and the question arriving in every HR inbox and group chat is identical: at what temperature does work legally have to stop? T...

06/23/2026

6 min

Returnships are shrinking: Career Returners and CIPD show the UK reality

If you are planning a return to work after a career break, the structured on-ramp you had in mind may already be shorter than it was twelve months ago. Returnship programmes, the paid, time-limited placements that offered retraining, peer cohorts ...

06/23/2026

7 min

CEST credibility gap: IR35 Shield FOI data shows 71% collapse in HMRC tool usage

HMRC's Check Employment Status for Tax (CEST) tool is shedding users at a rate that demands an explanation. Figures obtained via a Freedom of Information request by compliance specialist IR35 Shield and reported by The Register show that CEST ...

06/23/2026

7 min

Royal Mail's 6,500 daily sick days and what they reveal

Royal Mail's chief executive, Martin Seidenberg of International Distribution Services, disclosed at The Times CEO Summit that approximately 6,500 postal workers are absent on any given working day. Across a workforce of roughly 130,000, that is ...

06/23/2026

8 min

UK AI talent gap reaches 160,000 roles: Skilled Worker visa rules and the domestic reskilling case

If you are a junior developer in the UK refreshing job boards this month, you are not imagining the thinning listings. New analysis from Robert Walters and Native Teams projects that UK demand for AI professionals will approach 300,000 roles by ...

06/22/2026

6 min

UK private-sector pay growth slows to 2.9%

Private-sector pay growth in the United Kingdom has slipped to its softest reading in more than five years, while the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee voted on 18 June 2026 to hold Bank Rate at 3.75%. Taken together, the two data ...

06/22/2026

8 min

EU Pay Transparency Directive: a practical guide for UK workers at multinationals

If you work for a UK-headquartered company that also employs people in the EU, or you are weighing up an offer from one, the way salaries are advertised and discussed is shifting under your feet. The EU Pay Transparency Directive (Directive ...

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