Financial Times
In the Financial Times, BCG’s Christin Owings addresses the UK’s ongoing war for talent, even amid inflation and recession fears. Businesses are eager to fill the 1.2 million jobs that became vacant during the pandemic, but even with the most aggressive hiring tactics, the outflow of labor is expected to continue. A BCG survey of “deskless” workers—those who must be physically present to do their jobs—found that more than one-third are at risk of quitting by the end of 2022. “We are coming out of an unprecedented period with the pandemic,” Owings says. “But we are still sitting with a lot of these issues.”