Oct 4, 2021
Labour shortages extend to professional services
Never mind shortages of lorry drivers or fruit pickers, now things are really getting serious: there's a shortage of professional services workers. Some City firms have started to turn away work because of a lack of staff, our correspondents report. Firms' attempts to poach rivals' workers are fuelling a wage spiral among some white-collar workers. The chief executive of the biotechnology group behind the first Covid-19 vaccine has said a new formulation is likely to be needed by the middle of next year to protect against the virus as it mutates, Erika Solomon and Nikou Asgari report. Columnist Pilita Clark finds employers of millennials and Gen-Z troubled by worker shortages that can't be solved by throwing money at the problem.
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