Redundancies rise by 41,000 in three months

There are now 1.86 million people unemployed in the UK, up 137,000 on the previous three months and 238,000 on the year, government figures have revealed.

The rate of unemployment has risen by 0.4 percentage points to 6.0 per cent, figures from the Office for National Statistics showed.

 

Language does not simply reflect what is going on in organisational life: it also influences what people think and what they do

Linda Holbeche, director of the Holbeche Partnership and visiting professor of HRM/OD at Cass Business School