UK businesses are paying more for contractors as skills shortages and economic uncertainty drive demand for temporary support. That’s based on the latest data from the Association of Professional Staffing Companies (APSCo) – the trade body for the professional recruitment sector.

The data - provided by the global leader in software for the staffing industry, Bullhorn – showed a 3% month-on-month ...

The Fannie Mae (OTCQB: FNMA) Home Purchase Sentiment Index® (HPSI) decreased 4.1 points in October to 56.7, its eighth consecutive monthly decline and lowest reading since the inception of the index in 2011. Five of the six index components decreased month over month, including those associated with home buying and selling conditions, as persistently high home prices and unfavorable mortgage ...

The 2022 World's Most Attractive Employers (WMAE) rankings highlight a growing misalignment between students' job expectations and what employers can offer in a cooling economy. "Competitive salary" and "high future earnings" are now two of the top-three priorities for business, engineering, and IT university students — and are among the fastest-growing priorities.

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Lattice has released its annual State of People Strategy report. Over 800 HR leaders from companies around the world weighed in this year, shedding light on where HR priorities have shifted, the trends behind high-performing teams, and the biggest challenges facing People teams as they work to retain and engage top talent amid economic uncertainty.

The past year brought new and continuing challen...

The UK is facing a mass exodus of talent with almost half of the workforce (41%) planning to move jobs at a time when businesses are struggling to find the resources they need to survive the economic uncertainty. That’s according to new research by specialist recruitment firm Robert Half.

The firm’s 2023 Salary Guide - which analyses and reports on market salaries, hiring trends, and skills requi...

Good news for cybersecurity: More risk managers have purchased cyber insurance to help protect their businesses and customers from the potentially disastrous consequences of breaches and hacks. The bad news: Increasing premiums and restrictions for cyber coverage over the past year have created frustration for some business leaders.

This is the mixed picture emerging from the 12th annual Informat...

A study by global workplace leader Unispace has found that the pandemic and associated work-from-home guidance saw more men than women find a better balance between the office and home. This underscores the need for companies today to create spaces and flexible working approaches that drive equity across all genders.

According to the Unispace study of 3,000 employees working across Europe, male o...

BigID, a data intelligence platform, has released the Cloud Data Security Research Report 2022, in partnership with Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) - with results from over 1,500 IT & Security professionals.

According to the survey, organizations consider cloud data security a top 3 priority when protecting data - and cloud data security posture management (DSPM) is critical to addressing gaps....

New research from emlyon business school has recently found that there are 3 key reasons why a company becoming more sustainable can actually deter consumers from consumption.

The first reason is because of the information provided around products. Often, when a product is more sustainable, it is sold with increased labelling and information, which consumers see as ambiguous or contradictory. The...