Much of the shortage reflects a big increase in the number of older people who are neither in work nor actively looking for a job.
“We need to be ambitious and creative in the way we go about meeting the demand for technicians,” chief executive officer Graham Stapleton said in a statement.Post-pandemic almost all other rich nations apart from Britain have seen their labor markets fully recover., which sees it as a factor pushing up inflation and wages in the short term, and limiting Britain’s longer-term growth.