Amey’s People Director Stephanie Johnson describes a raft of recruitment and training strategies that aim to bring back the long term unemployed to the workforce The UK workforce has been changing dramatically over the last few years as a result ...

ESS, the Defence, Energy and Government Services sector of Compass Group UK & Ireland, has partnered with Bedford College, part of The Bedford College Group, to deliver the ‘First Steps’ supported internship at its MOD Chicksands site. The programme is providing ...

A third (34 per cent) of UK businesses are finding themselves short-staffed at least once a week due to worker illness and the difficulty of recruiting enough people to fill gaps, reveals new research by online marketplace for flexible and ...

Six months since the launch of the Government-backed Homelessness Covenant, more than 160 businesses have registered their interest in joining the Government’s drive to help prevent and end homelessness, starting in the workplace. Employers across the country are being urged ...

Sodexo UK & Ireland has marked the first anniversary of Starting Fresh with the release of an employer toolkit. The toolkit builds on resources the organisation launched last March to help bridge the gap between businesses struggling with skills shortages ...

Sodexo UK & Ireland is one of 70 major businesses joining Tent UK, a new coalition of companies which aims to advance the labour market integration of refugees in the UK. In recent years, the UK has welcomed more than ...

Sodexo Live! has teamed up with the Choose Hospitality Pledge, and its co-founder Nestlé Professional, to host three mass career workshops at Newcastle United’s St. James’ Park, Brighton & Hove Albion FC’s American Express Stadium and Everton FC’s Goodison Park. ...

South Cambridgeshire District Council’s four-day week trial has seen £434,000 less spent on agency staff covering hard to fill roles, according to a new report. This has been achieved by filling 10 permanent roles that the Council previously struggled to ...

A new white paper published today by soft facilities management firm, SBFM, explores the industry’s continued struggle with recruitment and retention since Brexit and the Covid 19 pandemic and discusses the wealth of untapped potential that lies within various underrepresented ...

The infrastructure services and engineering company has secured a renewed five-year revalidation under the MOD’s Gold Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) for its “exceptional support” to the Armed Forces community. Initially awarded in 2018, Amey says the revalidation acknowledges the company’s “long-term ...