La Gran Bretagna che affronta la “crisi della disoccupazione giovanile” come negozi congelati assunzioni
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/08/27/britain-youth-unemployment-crisis-retailers-freeze-hiring/
di OGSyedIsEverywhere
La Gran Bretagna che affronta la “crisi della disoccupazione giovanile” come negozi congelati assunzioni
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/08/27/britain-youth-unemployment-crisis-retailers-freeze-hiring/
di OGSyedIsEverywhere
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Is there any part of this country that isn’t in crisis?
Seems like every week there’s an article about xyz being in crisis.
Totally not unrelated to Boris wave and how shops are now mainly staffed by international students and that wave /s
Shops aren’t going to hire as many people if they have replaced people with technology.
No shit. We can’t hire a kid out of college when minimum wage is £25k. Our sales staff are on £27k plus commission.
It’s too much money for too much risk for someone who’s never even worked in an office environment before.
It’s very realistic that after 3 months of training we find they’re not cut out for the role and we’ve sank £10k and wasted a lot of time when we could have just picked someone with experience in a similar role.
Companies always have to ‘take a chance’ when hiring someone into a role, but the tradeoff has been that less experienced staff don’t demand as much money. That tradeoff no longer exists.
It’s not just shops, it’s across the board for new workers and existing. The next 5/10 years is going to be even worse than it has been
Same in Europe and Canada where the classic entry level youth jobs, like McDonald’s or stacking shelves, are now done by older foreign workers.
Raise minimum wage for kids.
Employers don’t take risks on kids.
Shock. Horror
Best cut benefits some more to encourage them to get jobs though eh.
The biggest reason I’ve seen personally is with pension ages rising people are willing to work on and companies are sticking with those people who have experience given the wage differences are barely noticeable.
Yet our department in the NHS are pretty much constantly recruiting for entry level jobs as the level of applicants is so poor, or use AI in their application/interview
Also a big problem no one is talking about is outsourcing entry level jobs abroad. How are the young adults supposed to build their careers when they cannot get simple office, customer service or telephony jobs to build the experience.
A nice mix of an increase in minium wage, living wage and the NI was an amazing idea….
It’s working well
> While weekend retail jobs have been a rite of passage for generations, new estimates suggest more than 40,000 young people will miss out on shop floor jobs over the next three years, as the high street braces for a fresh tax raid.
13,000 a year, from a pool of at least 1m. None of those job “losses” are anything to do with consolidation or automation, right?
Crisis at the Telegraph as overuse of the word crisis causes all their articles to become bland crisis-free lobby pieces.
None of these issues are new. Businesses have been savage in cost cutting, wage stagnating, lowering staff numbers since COVID.
I remember a year ago after the election, a political correspondent made the comment that the Tories way back into power is to make Labour take the hit for how bad a situation the country is in.
The thing that amazes me is that it only took them 1 year to complete it. Labour are done, but the only difference is the Tories are still shit and we are doomed to accept Nigel Farage.
I want off this train, its on fire.
Companies are cutting jobs generally. The rise in NI contributions won’t have helped but it is far from the sole cause of the issue we are seeing across age groups. Companies are just hiring fewer people across the board and have been for years, the idea of doing more with less has taken hold in businesses and entry-level roles have been affected quite hard. My sister worked in Waitrose a few years back, either on the tills or the self-checkouts, she left just as soon as everyone was becoming ‘multi-skilled’ i.e. they stopped hiring people and expected everyone still there to rotate around the shop to do everything. We can blame immigrants, rising minimum wages, raising NI contributions etc. but the reality is that companies are just hiring fewer people generally to cut running costs and keep profits steady.