With cost-saving still top of the agenda, and hiring plans remaining curtailed, new data from recruitment firm, Robert Walters, reveals how professionals are working extra hours just to keep up. The research found that only 20 per cent of professionals ...

Senior leaders from across construction and Government Ministers will today (26 June) launch the construction sector skills mission, to ensure the sector has the workforce it needs to deliver. The Construction Skills Mission Board will meet to set a strategy ...

Landmarc Support Services’ Guaranteed Interview Scheme has been extended to include the spouses, civil partners and long-term cohabiting partners of serving Armed Forces personnel. A trusted industry partner to the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO), the move says Landmarc, strengthens its ...

A new survey from workplace expert, Acas, has revealed that over a quarter (26 per cent) of workers are worried that artificial intelligence (AI) will lead to job losses. Acas commissioned YouGov to ask employees in Britain what their biggest ...

Three in five (60 per cent) of UK businesses say the upcoming rise in National Insurance Contributions (NICs) will reduce their ability to make new hires this year, according to new research. A survey carried out by Indeed Flex, the ...

Willmott Dixon is marking this year’s International Women’s Day on 8 March with a new initiative to increase the number of women on its sites working in the seven trades of M&E, drylining, façades (cladding and brickwork), framework, groundwork, carpentry ...

Mount Charles, one of Northern Ireland’s largest independent catering, cleaning, events and facilities management companies has unveiled plans to invest £10 million and create 2,000 new jobs in the next five years. The company, which has over 3,000 staff across ...

Amey has announced it is taking responsible action to address the industry’s widening skills gap through the implementation of strategic social recruitment initiatives. With 14 per cent of new recruits across the whole business coming from individuals facing barriers to ...

A recent poll conducted by Robert Walters, has found that an unprecedented number of professionals are choosing to remain with their current employer, a phenomenon which the recruitment firm calls ‘The Big Stay’. Over two-thirds of UK professionals (71 per ...

Seventy-six per cent of UK professionals state that the current 40-hour workweek doesn’t suit them, according to a new poll carried out by talent solutions firm, Robert Walters. With half (51 per cent) stating that switching to a four-day week ...