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People 1st research and policy blog: January 2014
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People 1st research and policy blog. Tuesday, 28 January 2014. 2014 is all about recruiting skilled professionals. 2013 was the year to shout about job creation. It saw sector employers pledging jobs and work experience, and highlighted the importance of tourism and the visitor economy as a job creator and critical player in the UK economy. Currently, the sector employs one in five of the working population and by 2020 it is projected to need a further 1.7m people. We need be supporting the further educa...
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People 1st research and policy blog: September 2013
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People 1st research and policy blog. Monday, 16 September 2013. It’s not often that a workforce issue becomes a big media storm, but few can have escaped the ongoing attention on zero hour contracts. The debate highlights not only the changing labour market, but also the fact it has largely gone unnoticed; until now! It’s no wonder that many higher skilled roles in the sector are difficult to fill. The irony is that one of the ways employers are tackling this problem is by attracting skilled workers from...
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People 1st research and policy blog: What does falling youth employment mean for the tourism and visitor economy?
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People 1st research and policy blog. Monday, 1 September 2014. What does falling youth employment mean for the tourism and visitor economy? Youth unemployment has fallen to its lowest level in nearly six years. While on the face of it this is good news for the economy, what are the implications for the tourism and visitor economy sector given its reliance on a young workforce? Recent research from the European Commission suggests the UK’s workforce growth will turn negative by 2023. What does falling you...
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People 1st research and policy blog: July 2013
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People 1st research and policy blog. Wednesday, 24 July 2013. Is it right to assume that growth and employment are natural bed fellows in the government's industrial strategy? The past 30 years has seen huge changes to the composition of most Western economies, with the UK at the forefront of many of those changes. During that time we have witnessed the gradual erosion of the UK's manufacturing base and the growing dominance of the service sector as we become a greater consumer society. Despite the fact ...
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People 1st research and policy blog: Despite the criticism, we are likely to need to recruit more EU migrants
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People 1st research and policy blog. Tuesday, 27 May 2014. Despite the criticism, we are likely to need to recruit more EU migrants. Few people can have escaped the debate, prompted by the European elections on whether there should be tighter controls on other EU citizens coming to work in the UK. If tighter restrictions were imposed, what impact is it likely to have on the tourism workforce? The debate is not likely to go away and individual sector businesses will probably continue to come under fire fo...
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People 1st research and policy blog: July 2015
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People 1st research and policy blog. Wednesday, 29 July 2015. The government’s long-awaited productivity plan: why it raises more questions for employers. So at last we know the government’s take. On the so-called ‘productivity puzzle’ of a growing economy and stagnant productivity. Even more critically, we know what it proposes to do to tackle it. This includes a modern transport system, planning freedom and more houses to buy, resurgent cities and a trading nation open to international investment.
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People 1st research and policy blog: July 2014
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People 1st research and policy blog. Tuesday, 29 July 2014. The emerging disruption on the back of the sharing economy. We are at the forefront of major economic and social change, which has the power not only to disrupt a company’s business model, but also that of an entire industry. According to Jeremy Rifkin in his thought-provoking book, ‘Zero Marginal Cost Society’, this year Airbnb will surpass Hilton and InterContinental by filling more rooms globally. To date, 3m guests have booke...If you’...
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People 1st research and policy blog: September 2014
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People 1st research and policy blog. Monday, 1 September 2014. What does falling youth employment mean for the tourism and visitor economy? Youth unemployment has fallen to its lowest level in nearly six years. While on the face of it this is good news for the economy, what are the implications for the tourism and visitor economy sector given its reliance on a young workforce? Recent research from the European Commission suggests the UK’s workforce growth will turn negative by 2023. Wwwpeople1st.co&#...
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People 1st research and policy blog: The emerging disruption on the back of the sharing economy
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People 1st research and policy blog. Tuesday, 29 July 2014. The emerging disruption on the back of the sharing economy. We are at the forefront of major economic and social change, which has the power not only to disrupt a company’s business model, but also that of an entire industry. According to Jeremy Rifkin in his thought-provoking book, ‘Zero Marginal Cost Society’, this year Airbnb will surpass Hilton and InterContinental by filling more rooms globally. To date, 3m guests have booke...If you’...
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People 1st research and policy blog: The 21st Century chef
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People 1st research and policy blog. Friday, 14 August 2015. The 21st Century chef. Chefs continue to be a critical recruitment challenge for many hospitality businesses. Currently, 42% of chef vacancies are considered hard-to-fill with research from People 1st indicating that by 2022 the industry will need to recruit an additional 11,000 chefs. This industry sea change, begs a number of questions for kitchens of the future: namely, how will we come to properly define the role of a 21st century chef?
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