Director’s update: skills, inclusion and employment

The CBI warns that waiting for shortages to solve themselves will delay UK economic recovery

The dominant labour market story of the summer has been the impact of labour shortages on the ability of firms to trade their way to recovery. While this is a significantly better problem to have than the 10% jump in unemployment that furlough averted, it still needs a policy response from a government that has been very reluctant to provide one. Skills and automation are the long-term so