The United Kingdom is the oldest staffing market in Europe and the largest market in terms of size (by sales). It is highly fragmented with some 15,000 firms. Many of the most recognisable UK-based providers such as Hays, Michael Page and Robert Walters have now spread around the world.
Temporary agency work is treated as a service sector in its own right and, in the UK, was one of the least regulated markets in Europe. However, in recent years the implementation of the European Agency Work Directive has increased the degree of control. There are two principal associations representing the interests of the staffing industry: the Recruitment & Employment Confederation (REC) and the Association of Professional Staffing Companies (APSCo).
The UK, a leading trading power and financial centre, is the third-largest economy in Europe after Germany and France, and the seventh-largest in the world. In addition to a flexible labour market, the country is pro-business and open to foreign investment. The population is over 60 million and the nation is placed seventh in the World Bank’s ‘Ease of Doing Business’ ranking.
Attached is part one of our study of the UK Life Science Market...
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Attached is part one of our study of the UK Life Science Market. This gives an overview of the industry, highlights the key clusters in the UK and looks at some of the major players in these areas ......
Management ("IM") market in Europe
Figures and facts from Germany, Belgium, NL, UK, Switzerland and France.
Echoes from the market in 2009/2010 in Europe and CZ.
The purpose
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This briefing is an update of the work we completed in January 2009. It contains a list of data sources for the UK, covering academic resources, applicable ... research publications / research / cws council toolkit library / we briefing uk
This Insight provides the compilation of statutory cost in the UK in 2010...
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This Insight provides the compilation of statutory cost in the UK in 2010, applicable to the assignment of temporary workers by temporary staffing companies. Data include the UK equivalen...
will stagnate or grow very slight (+1%) in 2010 unless EU Directive 2008/104 is implemented in which case the market will start growing faster in H2 or Spain sees a banking collapse to rival the UK or Ireland
be treated with a note of caution.
For those interested in general M&A activity in Europe Mergermarket's Intelligence highlights activity in the UK in Transport Media and Telecoms and in Germany and Eastern
annual sales revenues, each representing 21% of the global agency work market, followed by the UK at 15%
• Europe is the leading regional entity by total annual sales revenues, accounting for 48
Activities" or NAF code, revision 2, which replaced NAF rev. 1, created in 2003. These codes are designed very much like the UK SIC or US NAICS code to designate a company's main activities. Following the NAF
subjects. All terms are translated into German.
The mygraduatejobsearch website defines roughly 540 work, employment, recruitment and career terms and phrases as they apply to the UK market
At the heart of this website are freelancesupermarket’s UK league tables which rate the competencies of
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