The CIPD quarterly survey provides a set of forward-looking labour market indicators, highlighting employers’ recruitment, redundancy and pay intentions. The survey is based on 1,019 HR professionals, many of whom are drawn from the CIPD’s membership of more than 135,000 professionals.
The report shows that the labour market will continue to weaken in the first quarter of 2012 and quarterly employment intentions have fallen to their lowest level since the recession.