Comment: firms need to prepare for a post-coronavirus recruitment drive

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With 6.3m employees on furlough and 2m having joined the ranks of the unemployed, it may seem perverse to suggest that a major issue for the recovery will be recruitment and retention of staff.

Having the right level of staffing, with the appropriate blend of skills, abilities and attitudes, is a strategic issue in itself – because only with appropriate staffing can other strategies be implemented.

That is truer than ever as firms fight through, and hopefully out of, the Coronavirus-induced recession.

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