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Is the Paper Ceiling Holding Your Organisation Back? Why you might want to go degree-optional For a long time, employers wouldn’t consider candidates without a degree even though their daily

The UK’s specialist social care sectors – particularly in adult Learning & Disabilities (L&D) and residential care for Children & Young People (CYP) – are facing acute pressures. Financial constraints, rising demand, workforce issues, regulatory challenges and questions around long-term sustainability all shape the landscape. Below, we examine the issues in more detail and outline potential solutions.

Manpower is pleased to confirm the renewal of our membership with Make UK, the organisation representing and supporting UK manufacturers including the defence and aerospace sectors that play such a vital role in our economy and national security.

Intensified by surging customer expectations, digital transformation and fierce competition for talent, UK contact centres (CC) and customer experience (CX) organisations face mounting workforce challenges. However, by implementing a well-designed, strategic workforce development plan, customer care businesses can overcome the obstacles to thrive even in the toughest business climate.

From AI and machine learning to blockchain, cloud and cybersecurity, the global IT landscape is transforming at lightning speed. Hybrid work, global talent and the rise of the gig economy are redefining how and where we work.

Good talent is where you find it – overcoming the skills shortage in UK social care Considering candidates with relevant lived experience over standard work experience can widen the talent

Humans in the age of customer care AI and automation Advanced technologies may be spreading rapidly across contact centres (CC) and customer experience (CX) businesses, but the human touch is

As digital innovation continues to shape every business sector, UK social care finds itself at a critical juncture. There is growing interest in how technology – particularly Artificial Intelligence (AI) – may improve care for some of the UK’s most vulnerable people.

The UK customer care landscape – in particular contact centres (CC) and customer experience (CX) organisations – is caught in a complex web of economic headwinds, workforce challenges and the accelerating march of technology.

​The latest Experis Tech Talent Outlook reveals a 42% IT Net Employment Outlook for Q4 2025. In an otherwise stalling labour market, the IT sector continues to enjoy the strongest outlook of all UK sectors for the third consecutive quarter.

UK trails in global hiring race, facing the world’s sharpest yearly and quarterly decline Hiring demand amongst UK employers has dropped to a new low (+11%) according to the latest

The UK’s challenging labour market conditions are taking their toll on business confidence going into Q4. Our report reveals hiring demand falls again to just +11% (a decline of -17% YoY and -9% on the quarter) - the weakest year-on-year hiring demand growth globally, underscoring the scale of the British slowdown.