Archive for June, 2009
Around 7% of the UK workforce is now unemployed and the number is likely to continue rising throughout this year, according to ‘analysts’ or, if you prefer, people who are no better at predicting the future than you or I but who have learned how to sound as if they are!
These redundancies are a statistical and economic fact of life at the moment.. but there is also a human side, quite apart from these. A human impact on the person who was previously a carpenter, office worker, manager, shop assistant, etc. and who has just been told that that’s all changed and that instead they are now, wait for it, ‘redundant’. Read the rest of this entry »
