BICS weighted Scotland estimates: data to wave 74
Business Insights and Conditions Survey (BICS) weighted Scotland estimates containing data to wave 74
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Recruitment
In Wave 74, businesses not permanently stopped trading were asked if they had experienced any difficulties recruiting employees in December 2022.
Figure 1: Difficulties in recruiting employees had been experienced by an estimated 45.9% of applicable businesses. The highest rate of recruitment difficulties was reported by businesses in the Accommodation & Food Services (63.4%) industry sector.
Source: Office for National Statistics – BICS – Weighted Scotland Estimates – Wave 74
Of those businesses having had recruitment difficulties, nearly two thirds reported having a lack of qualified applicants for the roles on offer (63.9%) and over half reported having a low number of applications for the roles on offer (55.6%). More than one fifth of businesses having had recruitment difficulties reported that this was due to a reduced number of EU applicants (20.6%), with this share rising to 41.7% in the Accommodation and Food Services industry sector.
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