Olympics knocks general staffing market back six months, says Adecco

The Adecco Job Watch survey of general staffing roles in the UK has seen an 11.16% drop in such roles advertised month-on-month, nearly exactly cancelling out the vacancies that had been added across the year so far.
Wed, 18 Jul 2012
The Adecco Job Watch survey of general staffing roles in the UK has seen an 11.16% drop in such roles advertised month-on-month, nearly exactly cancelling out the vacancies that had been added across the year so far.

Adecco UK managing director Steven Kirkpatrick says: “General staffing has taken a knock over the past month. We believe the reason behind this is something we are hearing quite a lot – that businesses are putting plans on hold for the Olympics, but will be looking to pick up in September when the perceived impact of the Games should have passed.”The recruiter’s previous survey of jobs in May had shown a 1.11% monthly rise in jobs compared to April, with the number of jobs up 11.5% since the year began, as reported by recruiter.co.uk.

Adecco notes that the biggest decline in general staffing has come in the engineering and manufacturing sector at 34.33%, and the only area seeing a rise in vacancies of over 1% was on the temporary side of accountancy at 1.6%.

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