BBCNEWS BBC News August 17, 2021 13:27:00
Across the economy, vacancies are a fifth higher than before coronavirus and employers can't find the staff they need. i think it is a perfect storm of lots of things, we have had a pandemic, people have not been moving jobs, people have been sticking where they are, so you've got a lack of candidate movement, we have had a lot of eu workers that have gone home during the pandemic and it is difficult to get back if you want to. and the skill shortages, you're going back to a lack of apprenticeships from a long time ago that have not been coming through. there are still about 1.9 million more p...