workers over 52joined. we have seen people come at the semi retirement and join us, so people that have either got time on their hands will need two and a bit of extra cash, and they had seen this as a flexible option to come back into the workplace and use life skills, as well as may prior relevant experience. so, for us, that is a great pool of people. there are three and a half million people between 50 and 64 economically inactive, that means not looking for a job. that is a fall of 56,000 over the last three months. and the demand for work also fell slightly, with a number of vacancies down 76,000. but there are still 1.1 million unveiled jobs. the government wants to see more over 50s back at work. we ve got quite a long way to go to get back to where we were pre pandemic. in fact, we would need to see those figures go down by about another half a million to get back to that point. so, there is a huge amount of work to be done. but there are some encouraging signs, and there are
than 6.5% between october and december, as employers came under pressure to respond to the rising cost of living. the latest figures also showed close to record low levels of unemployment, as our business editor simonjack explains. thank you. could the answer to looking after the under fives be found in the over 50s? this nursery in south london, like other businesses, is finding it harder, post brexit and post pandemic, to find staff. it is turning to older workers to fill the gaps, and is waiting for seven workers over 50 tojoin. we have seen people come out of semi retirement and join us, so people that have either got time on their hands or need to earn a bit of extra cash, and they have seen this as a flexible option to come back into the workplace and use life skills, as well as maybe prior relevant experience, so for us that is a great pool of people. there are 3.5 million people between 50 and 64 economically inactive. that means not looking for a job.
it is turning to older workees to fill the gaps, and is waiting for seven workers over 50 tojoin. we have seen people come out of semi retirement and join us, so people that have either got time on their hands or need to earn a bit of extra cash, and they have seen this as a flexible option to come back into the workplace and use life skills, as well as maybe prior relevant experience, so for us that is a great pool of people. there are 3.5 million people between 50 and 64 economically inactive. that means not looking for a job. that is a fall of 56,000 over the last three months, and the demand for workers also fell slightly, with the number of vacancies down 76,000, but there are still i.i million unfilled jobs. the government wants to see more over 50s back at work. we have quite a long way to go to get back to where we were prepandemic. in fact, we would need to see those figures go down by about another 500,000 to get back to that point. so there is a huge amount of work
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