Labour market

06/29/2026

58% of UK workers say their industry is outpacing them

A survey of 2,000 UK employees conducted by Arden University found that 58 percent believe their industry is changing faster than they can keep up with. Only around half of those same respondents are actively developing new skills to match the ...

06/29/2026

5 min

UK pay awards held flat in May 2026: how to negotiate salary

If you are building up to a pay conversation in the second half of 2026, the backdrop has shifted in a way that is easy to miss. Pay awards held flat through May 2026, according to predictions issued by Brightmine and reported by Personnel Today, ...

06/29/2026

6 min

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 ...

06/25/2026

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

6 min

A decade after Brexit: what the labour data shows in Leave areas

Ebbw Vale cast more Leave ballots per head than any other constituency in Wales in 2016, even as EU structural funds underwrote the town's most visible symbol of revival: a railway station built on the footprint of the old steelworks, which ...

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 ...

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