If Pat McFadden wants to get Britain back to work, business has the answers Opinion The new work and pensions secretary, Pat McFadden, should look to the City for ideas on getting 9m adults back into work, says Matthew Elliott Britain’s growth problem is evident to everyone. Since the global financial crisis of 2008, GDP per capita has expanded at barely half a per cent a year – a fraction [...]
Businesses, get back to work! WFH is harming young people Opinion If you care about young people, get your workers back to the office. WFH is hindering their development, writes Joanna Jensen.
National Insurance exemptions could help get Britain working again Opinion If the Chancellor wants to get Brits back to work, she should offer National Insurance cuts for those hiring the long unemployed, writes Georgiana Bristol.
Quarter of young workers considering quitting the workforce March 17, 2025 A quarter of British 18-24 year olds have considered leaving the workforce in the last year in a sign of the increasing impact of economic inactivity spreading across the UK. Among all UK workers, 10 per cent are currently actively considering leaving work for an extended period, with a further 20 per cent having considered [...]
ONS chief ‘very confident’ UK is suffering from rise in economic inactivity February 4, 2025 Professor Sir Ian Diamond said he was "very confident" that the UK was suffering from a rise in health-related economic inactivity, despite question marks about the quality of the data.
Britain needs to work harder to ‘compete globally’, Chris Philp says January 31, 2025 Brits need to work harder in order to “compete globally” with rival nations, Chris Philp has argued. The Conservative shadow home secretary told BBC Radio 4’s Political Thinking podcast that the UK “needs everyone to make a contribution” to keep up with states like China and India. He told presenter Nick Robinson that there were [...]
Labour survey failing because Brits don’t answer phones anymore, Bank official says November 26, 2024 The Bank of England’s chief economist has warned that improving official statistics might prove to be a “formidable” challenge due a distinctively British characteristic. For months policymakers have struggled with unreliable data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), which has made it very difficult to get a clear picture of the UK’s labour market. [...]
Explainer: Why taking a sick day could help boost the economy July 31, 2024 We’ve all seen it: corpse-like colleagues clocking in at the office because honestly they’re fine, “just a cold,” they cough, bravely. But did you know such heroics could be costing the economy £25bn a year? That’s right, according to the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), people working through illness rather than taking a sick [...]
The Notebook: Too many people are leaving the UK workforce. Here’s how to help July 23, 2024 Where the City’s movers and shakers have their say. Today, James Reed, CEO of Reed, takes the pen to talk about the UK workforce and how Labour can help lower economic inactivity How Labour can fight economic inactivity If I was in the new government, top of my in-tray would be the problem of economic [...]
Government plan to get people back into work and tackle economic inactivity announced July 11, 2024 Labour has laid out its first steps to get people back into work as the new government attempts to tackle the worrying rise in economic inactivity.