With recent statistics highlighting that unemployment is set to rise in 2012 to 8.8% from the recently reported current 8.3% – will this put further strain on small businesses? It has been reported that a third of small start up businesses find it difficult to hire suitable employees who are skilled enough for specific jobs. [...]

ONS statistics show another increase in unemployment levels by 281,000, to 2.38million in the three months to May. This is an increase of 7.6%, the highest for over 10years. Unemployment benefit claimants rose by nearly 24,000 in June, reaching 1.56million. This, overall, is still less that was predicted by analysts. Particularly hit are young people, [...]

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) records show that that unemployment on the UK is still on the rise with the number increasing by another 244,000 in the first three months of 2009 to reach 2.22 million. In percentage terms, this puts the number of people that are currently without employment at 7.1%. Claims for [...]

Official figures are expected to show that the UK economy shrank in the first quarter of this year at the same pace that it did in the final three months of last year, which is obviously not necessarily going to be good for business. Analysts are predicting that the gross domestic product (GDP) will have [...]

TUC has warned that, on average, for every job currently being advertised in the UK, there are 10 jobseekers. Figures show that this is twice the number of people who were claiming jobseekers a year ago, when there were 4 jobseekers for every job advertised. Though in some council areas, there are as many as [...]

Cut costs not a job… Cutting costs seem to be going hand in hand with redundancies but that is somewhat of a drastic step when there are a number of other solutions to the problem without losing any employees. After all it has been declared recently that it could actually cost a business more to [...]

What is a recession? We are well and truly deep into a recession now and so one of the first things we should all be aware of is the intricacies’ of what a recession is.  We all have our ideas about what a recession involves, but not everyone shares the same definition of the economic [...]