Talent management | Headcount - How many is 'just right'?

There was very little to cheer about in the CIPD’s latest Labour Market Outlook report, published this week.

Employer confidence is now at rock-bottom levels (down from +24 to +16); plans to invest are being scaled back; and the number of employers who say they’re planning to make redundancies is now at it’s highest level in a decade (excluding data from the pandemic).