Redundancies

[jackrussell101]

Just seems like there's been a sea change in the labour market last couple of months, seem to be hearing of more redundancies and cut backs in the news than normal more recently.

 

[Johnnyboxer]

Confidence is low I guess

 

[Cotlandfarmer]

Businesses struggling with high energy prices, low consumer demand for certain products and as said above low confidence due to a labour government that will possibly target small to medium business.

Many businesses could be suffering with the covid hangover, their business grew during covid, now consumers have returned to pre COVID buying habits the businesses that grew are now contracting and needs to cut staff accordingly.

 

[kiwi pom]

Heading that way long before the change of government, wasn't it?
We seem to have something similar, but our government has gone from left to right in the last year
Popular to blame labour governments on here though.

 

[Jackov Altraids]

I think the Western world has passed 'peak capitalism'.
The way to make money has always been to employ people. The more you employ, the more you can earn per employee.
It's getting very expensive to employ people when at the same time technology is providing alternatives through AI and automated systems.
Globalisation has also, in practice, privatised taxation with the big Corps, taking a % off everything we do while avoiding tax which has caused a lack of investment in infrastructure.
This with ever more regulation makes starting up a business increasingly difficult.

 

[serf]

Popular to blame labour governments on here though.

Yeah , everyone should have full confidence and be full of enthusiasm with the bright future ahead under a socialist gov wtf !

 

[Jackov Altraids]

Yeah , everyone should have full confidence and be full of enthusiasm with the bright future ahead under a socialist gov wtf !

I've never voted labour but without some socialist policies, a world controlled by Meta, Amazon and co. will not work much differently than communism. Choice is almost always a façade.

 

[serf]

I've never voted labour but without some socialist policies, a world controlled by Meta, Amazon and co. will not work much differently than communism. Choice is almost always a façade.

We'll still have to put up with these companies , labour are not going to go after them for money they will go after us peasants and let their donor mates carry on as you were

 

[Gong Farmer]

I've noticed a trend on news feeds to my phone for more and more items about 'It started as a side hustle, now I earn £XXXXX per month', to the extent I'm thinking it is all engineered to put thoughts in people's heads etc.

 

[Chae1]

ISG construction company went into administration last week, 2k jobs gone.

 

[Northeastfarmer]

What’s happening is everyone is wanting more money for less work and it’s not sustainable

 

[kiwi pom]

Yeah , everyone should have full confidence and be full of enthusiasm with the bright future ahead under a socialist gov wtf !

Indeed and the last lot did an amazing job didn't they.

When the current government exit (here or the UK) the wealthy will still be wealthy, the very wealthy will still be very wealthy, and the poor will still be poor.
Just the way it is, the rest is smoke and mirrors.

 

[serf]

Indeed and the last lot did an amazing job didn't they.

When the current government exit (here or the UK) the wealthy will still be wealthy, the very wealthy will still be very wealthy, and the poor will still be poor.
Just the way it is, the rest is smoke and mirrors.

All these tw@ts are going to do is rob off us give it to the public sector while in turn the unions will turn us back to the 70s and hold the country to Ransom , these lot make the "Tories " look good already ....

 

[jackrussell101]

ISG construction company went into administration last week, 2k jobs gone.

Dulux paint 2k jobs in Wales yesterday and VW cars 30k in Germany last week too, all starts to add up

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Dulux paint 2k jobs in Wales yesterday and VW cars 30k in Germany last week too, all starts to add up

It’s been coming for a while tbf

 

[kiwi pom]

All these tw@ts are going to do is rob off us give it to the public sector while in turn the unions will turn us back to the 70s and hold the country to Ransom , these lot make the "Tories " look good already ....

They'll be loopholes and lots of them in any new tax rules, always is. They could make the system simple and treat everyone the same if they wanted to, but they'd get caught up in paying then too.
Keeps lots of accountants in work.

It is true the right support business more and the left support the workers, a bit of a swing between the two isn't a bad thing.

 

[badger nadgers]

I've noticed a trend on news feeds to my phone for more and more items about 'It started as a side hustle, now I earn £XXXXX per month', to the extent I'm thinking it is all engineered to put thoughts in people's heads etc.

Nah, that's just lazy clickbait content creation. No ulterior motive, just more people clicking on such headlines so more get created as their associated advertising is sold per click.

 

[delilah]

I think the Western world has passed 'peak capitalism'.

It has. Replaced by corporate capitalism. Market share is the root of all evil.

 

[HarryB97]

Not surprising as well when you look at how many companies are over staffed and how many pointless jobs are out there. Look at Elon Musk who sacked 75% of twitters workforce and nothing changed!

 

[Ffermer Bach]

Confidence is low I guess

Aided by the new prime minister and chancellor saying all the time, things are bad, we have such a financial problem, oh woe is me.