Brexit: PageGroup Cuts Staff
Companies, Employment, News / 15 January 2020
It wasn’t all bad news for PageGroup however. Their 2019 full-year profits were, in total, up by 5%. The UK, rather tellingly, was the only market that saw profits slump. CEO Steve Ingham wasn’t concerned overall either, hailing PageGroup’s flexible business model as one that “..enables us to react quickly to changes in market conditions.”
The rising spectre to the recruitment sector, however, is the increasingly visible trend of a vacancy market in stagnation. According to research from the REC and KPMG, new opportunities are static, and even the previously booming demand for temp workers is slowly fizzling out.
Even the new certainty around Brexit has turned out to be somewhat hollow. The chances of tariff and trade agreements extremely unlikely in the timeframe set out by the UK government, according to the EU’s chief negotiators. In reality, both employers and candidates are not really any better off now than last year, in terms of knowing what the actual impacts will be, and when they might hit.
As it stands, the Brexit bite is still getting larger.