'Pause for thought' | ONS report of rise in vacancies leads to calls for focus on training and retention

In a time of economic worry, a cost-of-living crisis and where it might feel that the jobs market is in crisis too, new figures from the ONS appear to bring a ray of sunshine into a previously gloomy situation...

The ONS figures show that the number of payroll employees is now above pre-pandemic levels, with the number of vacancies in March to May 2023 at 1,051,000, a decrease of 79,000 from December 2022 to February 2023. It was the 11th consecutive period that vacancies had fallen – surely good news...