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London retailers may have announced a big drop in pre Christmas sales but according to the analysis of work destinations from across the London based Kennedy Scott programmes the opposite seems to have been true.
A massive 33% of all job starts in the last quarter of 2004 were in retail and only 3% of these were advertised as temporary roles expected to last only until the end of the January sales. Initial anecdotal information suggests that the retention rates are looking very positive and even clients accepting the very small percentage of temporary roles have told us of internal transfers to new branches to fill permanent vacancies. We are currently tracking these job starts in the strong belief that we will be able to evidence that this was not just a case of increasing staffing levels for the Christmas period and that most jobs will be sustained well into 2005 and beyond. The Kennedy Scott Customer Service Centre in Harrow is busy collecting the data as they offer on-going support to our successful clients. For further details contact Urmish Patel. UK retail sales in the run-up to Christmas were lower than a year ago for the first time in 10 years, the employers' organisation the CBI has found.
(Source: BBC 02 01 2005) |