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As imminent changes to employment rules continue to make headlines, recruitment leaders from across the UK gathered in London to underline the crucial importance of temporary work in the country’s employment infrastructure. The Government’s Employment Rights Bill is set to bring about some of the...

As the Tony Blair Institute reports that nearly three million jobs in the UK could be at high risk of automation over the next two decades, with researchers predicting a peak loss of between 60,000 to 275,000 jobs a year, leading recruiter Gi Group has urged business across the board to make a co...

From food bank collections to skydiving extravaganzas, the team at leading HR and Recruitment specialist Gi Group completed it all in the name of charity throughout 2024. Finishing the year with an impressive grand total of over £12,000 raised for a number of local and national charities, the who...

The UK recruitment sector is poised for a transformative year in 2025 as businesses confront a shifting landscape of workforce dynamics and market demands. Pete Taylor, Managing Director at Gi Group, and nominee for two 2025 Business Desk Leadership Awards, underscores the need for organisations ...

Leading recruitment firm Gi Group has warned about two troubling trends reshaping the UK job market – ghost hiring and vampire recruitment – as UK hiring slumps to ‘pandemic-era’ levels according to the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) and accountants KPMG. The practices are causing...

As the shops fill with big red bows and sparkling lights, it must mean only one thing – Christmas is fast approaching, and peak season is here. One of the UK’s leading HR and recruitment specialists, Gi Group, is unwrapping the evolution of Black Friday and unpacks its tried and tested appr...

Recent analysis by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) reveals that the cost of workplace sickness in the UK soared to over £100bn in 2023. The findings represent a £30bn increase from 2018, when the annual cost stood at £73bn. Leading recruiter Gi Group says the strain on both staff ...

With the rise of AI across all industries, Gi Group, one of the UK’s leading HR and recruitment specialists, explains how it can shape the future of the recruitment industry and why this societal shift shouldn’t be ignored. AI’s implementation is becoming increasingly part of big business convers...