Sweden – Wise Group CEO resigns

Swedish staffing firm Wise Group has announced that CEO Roland Gustavsson has resigned as CEO effective February 2018.

Gustavsson has worked in various positions within the Wise Group for 13 years, of which five were as CEO for the group. Gustavsson stated that he will move on and “search for new challenges.”...

Netherlands – Average hourly rate charged by freelancers remains flat in 2017

The average hourly rate charged by freelancers (known as zzp’ers in the Netherlands) remained flat at €43 in 2017, according to research from freelancer site Hoofdkraan.

Broken down by industry, those in the Marketing and Communications saw a decline of 5%, while management and organisation (-2%),...

UK – More than four million ‘struggle’ with flexible employment

More than four million people in the UK regularly experience 'precarious scheduling': flexible working with limited hours dictated by management, often with little notice, and to the detriment of employees' home lives and mental health, according to a new study from Cambridge and Oxford sociologists....

UK – Brexit causing London to haemorrhage talent and risk jobs

London saw a 33% decrease in professionals seeking jobs as well as an 11% drop in jobs available in July, when compared to the previous year, according to the latest Morgan McKinley London Employment Monitor.

Hakan Enver, Operations Director, Morgan McKinley Financial Services, commented on the year-on-year...

UK – Flexible working should be offered for all jobs, according to equality watchdog

Every job should be advertised as open to flexible working, according to the Equality and Human Rights Commission.

The equality watchdog adds recommends a shake up of working culture and practices in order to reduce pay gaps. They added that greater support should be given to fathers to play more of a...

Estonia – Employment rate steady in Q2, labour force participation rate reaches highest level in 20 years

Estonia’s employment rate stood at 66.9% in the second quarter ended June, flat compared to the same period last year according to figures from Statistics Estonia.

Meanwhile, the labour force participation rate increased to 72% in the 2nd quarter to its highest level in 20 years. The increase was mainly...

UK – More than half of finance businesses believe automation will drive productivity

More than half, or 59%, of finance executives in the UK believe digitalisation will increase the productivity of each individual, according to a report from international recruitment firm Robert Half.

The report, Digital transformation and the future of hiring, also showed that finance executives...

UK – Hiring demand rises but wage growth slows

Pay growth is likely to remain weak in the UK despite strong hiring demand and falling unemployment in the third quarter according to the latest Labour Market Outlook from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) and The Adecco Group.

The quarterly report, which surveyed more than 1,000...

UAE – Monster Employment Index shows decline in online hiring in Q2

The Monster Employment Index for UAE shows online hiring fell by 14% in the second quarter ended in June, compared to the previous quarter.

The index is a monthly gauge of online job hiring activity by Monster.com, which records the industries and occupations that show the highest and lowest growth.

According...

UK – Apprenticeship Levy could boost social mobility, Alexander Mann finds

The introduction of the Apprenticeship Levy is likely to boost social mobility by enabling employers to recruit emerging talent from a wider range of backgrounds, according to the latest research from talent acquisition and management consultancy Alexander Mann Solutions.

The report, ‘The Apprenticeship...