11 November 2025
Employers seeing increasing difficulty recruiting staff
The British Chambers of commerce have published their latest Quarterly Recruitment Outlook, showing a growing number of employers facing recruitment challenges.
The research, for the period 18th August to 15th September 2025, includes responses from over 4,600 businesses, over 90% of which were small-medium enterprises (SMEs).
It found that those facing recruitment challenges went up from 73% to 75%, despite a slight fall in the number attempting to recruit in the last three months (down from 55% to 54%).
There are some indications of further growth, with 25% saying they are planning to increase the size of their workforce in the next quarter, after only 22% said they did in the last quarter.
Read the Quarterly Recruitment Outlook.
The research, for the period 18th August to 15th September 2025, includes responses from over 4,600 businesses, over 90% of which were small-medium enterprises (SMEs).
It found that those facing recruitment challenges went up from 73% to 75%, despite a slight fall in the number attempting to recruit in the last three months (down from 55% to 54%).
There are some indications of further growth, with 25% saying they are planning to increase the size of their workforce in the next quarter, after only 22% said they did in the last quarter.
Read the Quarterly Recruitment Outlook.
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