{"id":469237,"date":"2025-10-02T19:51:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T19:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/469237\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T19:51:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T19:51:11","slug":"uk-firms-hiring-outlooks-weakest-in-four-years-guido-fawkes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/469237\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Firms’ Hiring Outlooks Weakest in Four Years \u2013 Guido Fawkes"},"content":{"rendered":"

British firms have the weakest hiring outlook since in four years, according to a Bank of England survey. It found companies expect to keep headcounts flat over the next year \u2013 the first time since November 2020. Businesses also predict the fastest consumer price inflation since early 2024 of 3.4%\u2026<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, official tax data shows employee numbers have been falling for seven straight months thanks to Reeves\u2019 \u00a340 billion tax raid last year. And as tax minister Dan Tomlinson said<\/a> at Labour Conference, the last budget is a good indicator of the next one\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"British firms have the weakest hiring outlook since in four years, according to a Bank of England survey.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3090],"tags":[1194,51,1700,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-469237","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-budget","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-economy","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115306317999037978","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}