Welsh employees focused on AI skills development

The majority of Welsh workers (62%) are funding their training in relation to artificial intelligence over the next five years while a further 59% are planning on retraining and moving into a role or field that is more AI-focused in the next five years, the highest level of all regions and well above...

Nominations still open for the 2024 Staffing 100 Europe list

Nominations continue to be accepted for SIA's 2024 Europe Staffing 100 list of the most influential people in the European staffing industry. The deadline is 24 May 2024.

The list comprises 100 executives who have made a difference in the European staffing industry. It is not a ranking but a contemporary...

Irish professional job vacancies and seekers down in Q1

The number of job openings and jobseekers in Ireland fell by almost a third in the first three months of 2024 compared to the same period last year, reports The Irish Times, citing the latest Morgan McKinley Quarterly Employment Monitor. The research showed that the number of vacancies in professional...

Hays Q3 net fees down amid tough market conditions

Hays plc (HAS:LSE), the world’s seventh-largest staffing firm, reported net fees, or gross profit, decreased by 14% on a like-for-like (LFL) basis in its fiscal third quarter ended 31 March 2024. On a reported basis, net fees fell by 17%. On a working-day adjusted (WDA) basis, net fees declined by...

Robert Walters flags challenging conditions as Q1 NFI tumbles

Robert Walters (RWA: LSE), the international recruitment firm, reported net fee income fell by 16% in constant currency during its trading update for the first quarter ended 31 March 2024.

The decrease in constant currency (CC) was against a strong prior year comparative (Q1 2023 flat year-on-year v....

Gattaca H1 2024 revenue down and discloses error in H1 2023 results

Specialist engineering and professional services staffing firm Gattaca (GATC:LSE) reported revenue of £188.4 million for the six months ended 31 January 2024, down 2% compared to the same period a year ago.

The group noted that its H1 2023 results have been restated for the correction of a revenue cut-off...

UK temporary employees down 15.7%, jobless rate rises to 4.2%

The number of temporary employees in the UK fell year-on-year by 15.7% during the December 2023 to February 2024 period, according to seasonally adjusted data from the Office for National Statistics.

For the December to February period, the number of temporary employees stood at 1,417,565. This was 0.69%...

PageGroup Q1 gross profit down amidst headcount reductions

PageGroup (PAGE:LSE) announced that group gross profit declined by 12.8% to £219.7 million on a constant currency basis. The slowdown PageGroup saw at the end of Q4 2023 continued into Q1, with some deterioration experienced, particularly within Continental Europe.

Trading conditions in Asia, the UK and...

More UK firms recruited in Q1 with temporary staff hiring on the rise

The majority of businesses across the UK (84%) recruited in Q1 2024, increasing from 78% in Q4 and Q1 2023, according to Totaljobs’ Hiring Trends Index.

Of those who hired, almost 2 in 5 (37%) increased their hiring while 18% paused it. This confirms that recruitment activity quickly jumped up following...

HMRC adds employment agencies to ‘name and shame’ list

Four UK firms have been added to the HMRC’s list of named tax avoidance schemes, promoters, enablers and suppliers. The most recent update to the list was on 11 April 2024 with the addition of Acacia Management Services Limited, Alphasaint Limited, Ultra Employment Limited and Worx 4U Limited.

Acacia...