Tag: Unemployment

An all-pervasive 'just be kind' mindset in every walk of life is turning the economy to mush, says Sam Ashworth-Hayes. And it's being driven by out-of-control HR.

Entrepreneur Luke Johnson worries that furlough and working from home have fed into a culture of entitlement that could end up bankrupting the entire welfare state.

The number of people not in work has grown by 641,710 since the start of the pandemic, 352,011 of which is due to an increase in the number of long-term sick; most of that has occurred since July 2021.

Australians who have been fired from their job for refusing to comply with vaccine mandates have taken to social media to look for new employment.

56,000 Brits lost their jobs last month, taking the total number of losses to 813,000 over the past year of lockdowns, according to data from the Office for National Statistics.

Nearly 40% of theatre and arts workers in London have been made redundant since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, according to ITV News. Will the West End ever recover?

A report by the ONS has found that unemployment for recent university graduates reached 12% in the third quarter of last year, following months of Government-imposed lockdowns.