Post-recession high for job creation in 2014

Posted on 17 Dec 2013 by The Manufacturer

For the first time since the recession more than half of firms surveyed in the CBI Employment Trends Survey plan to create jobs in the next 12 months.

51% of the 325 firms that participated in the CBI/Accenture Employment Trends survey said they expected to expand their workforce in 2014. Firms inYorkshire and Humberside and the East Midlands expressed the most ambitious plans. Manufacturing firms accounted for one in four respondents to the survey. Buoyant job creation plans were linked to cautious pay…

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