Business conditions

New and updated

• Business confidence: private sector

  Type:

  Indicators

  Updated to include the outlook on the services industry from the CBI Quarterly Service Sector Survey, May 2019.

• Reliance on agency workers increases as confidence in economy drops

  Date:

  24 April 2019

  Type:

  News

  UK employers are increasingly likely to hire agency workers amid continuing falls in confidence in the economy, according to the research published today.

• Sharp decline in UK employee confidence

  Date:

  18 March 2019

  Type:

  News

  Employee confidence in the UK business environment has slumped, according to global research company Gartner.

• Retail workers face highest risk of redundancy

  Date:

  27 February 2019

  Type:

  News

  Retail workers are more likely to be made redundant and endure a significant period of unemployment than workers in any other sector, a report has found.

• Employer confidence in economy at three-year low

  Date:

  27 February 2019

  Type:

  News

  Employers' confidence in the UK economic prospects hit a three-year low last month, according to the Recruitment and Employment Confederation's JobsOutlook research.

• Tesco ends speculation and announces job cuts of 4,500-plus

  Date:

  28 January 2019

  Type:

  News

  There is widely reported speculation that Tesco could be on the cusp of making 15,000 workers redundant - equating to 3.4% of its 440,000 global workforce.

• John Lewis Partnership might not pay staff bonus for first time in 66 years

  Date:

  10 January 2019

  Type:

  News

  John Lewis Partnership may not pay its staff a bonus this year, despite having the funds to do so, as it prepares for continuing turbulence on the high street.

• UK productivity levels better than feared

  Date:

  11 December 2018

  Type:

  News

  British workers may be producing more goods and services per hour than longstanding economic indicators have suggested, according to new analysis of productivity from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

• CBI: Businesses losing patience as Brexit talks stall

  Date:

  22 October 2018

  Type:

  News

  Eight out of 10 businesses feel the lack of clarity emerging from the Brexit talks is having a negative impact on investment decisions, according to a survey by the CBI.

• Review of pay awards 2018: Chemicals, pharmaceuticals and oil

  Date:

  11 October 2018

  Type:

  Survey analysis

  Our analysis of pay awards in the chemicals, pharmaceuticals and oil sector over the past year finds them among some of the highest across the economy.