UK – CIOs predict up to 1 in 5 jobs to be replaced by robots within 5 years: Harvey Nash

CIOs in the UK to expect that up to 1 in 5 jobs will be replaced by AI and automation within five years, according to a survey from Harvey Nash and professional service firm KPMG.

It comes as IT departments are being tasked to use AI to improve efficiencies. Harvey Nash also states that this trend is...

UK – Foreign candidates losing interest in financial sector over Brexit concerns (City A.M)

Interest in UK banking jobs from foreign candidates has dropped by 12% since 2015, with Brexit seen as largely to blame for the falling interest, reports City A.M. citing data from jobs site Indeed. Interest in UK financial jobs fell most sharply among candidates from Europe at the end of 2015, however...

Netherlands – 9% of workers want to work more, but 7% would like to work less (DutchNews)

Approximately 9% of workers in the Netherlands would like to work more, while 7% would like to cut their hours, reports DutchNews.nl citing data from Statistics Netherlands. It was found that women who work full time in particular would like to work less. Of those who work 36 hours or more, 14% of women...

UK – Staffline takes £32.6 million hit over minimum wage failure

Staffline, the UK-based staffing and employability organisation provided a trading update today. The company said non-recurring exceptional charges for 2018 totalled to £32.6 million in relation to errors in historic compliance with National Minimum Wage (NMW) regulations.

The company added that it will...

UK – Workers and jobseekers’ confidence in labour market falls, report finds

Confidence in the UK labour market among workers and jobseekers fell from 77% to 67%, according to a report from jobs site Monster and the Centre for Economics and Business Research.

The report, ‘Monster Jobs Confidence Index’, defines worker and jobseeker confidence as how an individual feels about...

Europe – Job vacancy rate rises in euro area and EU 28 in Q1

The job vacancy rate in the euro area (EA19) stood at 2.3% in the first quarter of 2019, up from 2.1% in the first quarter of 2018. At the same time, in the EU28, the job vacancy rate was 2.4%, up from 2.2% in the first quarter of 2018, according to data published by Eurostat, the statistical office...

Spain – Employment in SMEs up in Q1, Randstad finds

SMEs (small to medium enterprises) in Spain saw employment grow by 3.2% in Spain during the first quarter of 2019, when compared to the same period last year, according to Randstad Spain.

During the first quarter of 2019, SMEs generated a total of 58,644 jobs.

Broken down by company size, Randstad found...

UK – SThree net fees up 9% in constant currency, international growth offsets UK&I slowdown

International recruitment firm, SThree (STHR: LSE) published a trading update for the six months ended 31 May 2019 with group net fees up 9% in constant currency when compared to the same period last year. 

The company said its performance in the first half of the year was in line with management...

Belgium – Impact acquires majority stake in Dutch employment agency Haldu Groep

Belgian employment agency, Impact, announced that it has acquired a controlling interest in Dutch employment agency Haldu Groep. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed.

Haldu Groep, founded in 2010, through the merger of three employment agencies, specialises in the construction, engineering...

World – Fiverr begins trading on NYSE; firm ranks as seventh-largest B2B human cloud platform

Israel-based online staffing platform, Fiverr International, (NYSE: FVRR) began trading yesterday on the New York Stock Exchange.

The company priced shares at $2 and reached $41.68 during yesterday’s trading session, according to the Financial Times.

The number of shares offered in the IPO was 5,263,158....