Offering light in the darkness
13 September 2012
The fine detail of the government’s spending review and its impact on the public sector has yet to be worked out, but as Scott Beagrie discovers, companies offering services to contractors could at least lessen the pain
After a lengthy wait, the Comprehensive Spending Review has turned into hard reality. While those in the public sector’s permanent workforce await their fate, the contractors market has already been one of the early casualties.
According to a survey from the Recruitment & Employment Confederation (REC), an estimated 120,000 temporary jobs have been cut in the...