Britain's missing workers
Investigating the reasons behind the UK's shrinking workforce in the wake of the Covid pandemic
The fight to get Britain’s lost employees fit and working again
Covid has shrunk the nation’s workforce, but new programmes aim to tackle the ill-health that may be holding willing employees and entrepreneurs back
‘It’s just not worth it’: why full-time work no longer pays in the UK
Britain has a shrinking economy and a worker shortage – so why aren’t part-time workers increasing their hours?
Retirement boom among UK’s older workers creates economic headache
Wyre Forest in the West Midlands has seen a huge jump in the ‘economically inactive’, many of them affluent older people, but the dearth of workers is a real problem for employers
Official UK jobless figures may be missing 3m people, study finds
Report on ‘hidden unemployment’ shows stark north-south divide in adults out of work due to ill health or lack of good opportunities
‘It was frightening’: four Britons on returning to work after retiring
After the pandemic, record numbers retired – now that trend is reversing as people flock back to the workforce
‘It has hit Grimsby very hard’: health in decline after years of austerity
Tory council leader dismisses suggestions years of cuts have played role, but others beg to differ
Baby boom: why funding childcare properly will boost the UK economy
The parent trap: Hunt is not helping British mothers back to work
Hunt cracks down on benefit claimants amid chronic shortage of workers
More to be asked to meet a ‘work coach’ but experts point to jump in long-term sickness due to gaps in public services
CBI urges Jeremy Hunt to relax immigration rules to ease UK staff shortages
Lobby group says failure to tackle workforce shortages would be highly damaging for the economy
Rise in back pain and long-term sickness linked to home working – ONS
Poor ergonomics contributed to number of ‘economically inactive’ people and to UK’s labour shortage
‘I can’t work in the office safely’: the over-50s leaving the UK labour force
The number of economically inactive 50- to 64-year-olds has shot up. Some can simply afford to retire – but many have long Covid or other health issues
The long battle to get Britain’s lost employees back to work
In the wake of Covid, many of the economically inactive people in the UK would love to take up a new job. In the first of a series of articles about our changing workforce, we ask what it would take to make them productive again
