{"id":83434,"date":"2026-01-12T09:26:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T09:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=83434"},"modified":"2026-01-12T09:26:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T09:26:28","slug":"jobseekers-flood-the-market-as-companies-lay-off-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/01\/12\/jobseekers-flood-the-market-as-companies-lay-off-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Jobseekers flood the market as companies lay off staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1U1o6Q.img?w=534&amp;h=334&amp;m=6\" alt=\"JobCentre plus\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Laid-off workers are flooding the jobs market after Labour\u2019s pro-union overhaul and a surge in costs caused business confidence\u00a0<a class=\"ck-custom-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/money\/consumer-affairs\/why-2026-will-be-the-year-britains-jobs-market-collapses\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">to hit a five-year low<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/money\/other\/jobseekers-flood-the-market-as-companies-lay-off-staff\/ar-AA1U1KRi?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=6964bca804764775baa71e4790671eb6&amp;ei=50\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Laid-off workers are flooding the jobs market after Labour\u2019s pro-union overhaul and a surge in costs caused business confidence\u00a0to hit a five-year&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54054,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-83434","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/jobs-blocked-off.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83435,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83434\/revisions\/83435"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}