Rethinking your staffing requirements to survive the recession
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With a new CBI survey revealing the highest level of retail job cuts since the 2009 crisis, lockdown restrictions, a lack of consumer confidence and less spending power continues to hit Britain’s high streets hard. While some businesses have remained resilient and are now back trading under revised conditions, a number of retail heavyweights, including Debenhams and Marks & Spencer, have already announced mass redundancies.