Labour struggles | Third of UK firms short-staffed every week amid recruitment & absence struggles

A third of UK businesses are finding themselves short-staffed at least once a week, new research has revealed.

Indeed Flex, the online marketplace for flexible and temporary work, surveyed HR teams and managers responsible for organising staff rotas, and found that a third of UK businesses (34%) have a gap in their rota at least once a week because they have insufficient staff available to work. An additional fifth (23%) of businesses are under-staffed at least once a month.