UK Shrinking Workforce Threatening The Economy: Silent Exodus
The UK economy is facing a new storm that goes beyond inflation and the UK cost of living crisis. A silent exodus of workers is reshaping industries, and the warning signs are clear. The combination of ageing demographics, early retirements, post-Brexit migration shifts, and rising health challenges has left the UK shrinking workforce 2025 looking more fragile than ever. This isn’t just a headline; it is a structural problem that fuels the UK labour shortage crisis and drives up recruitment challenges across almost every sector. Poverty in UK communities is also being aggravated by fewer working-age people contributing to tax revenues, which means less public funding for services when they are needed most. The UK economy workforce decline is forcing businesses to scale back or automate faster than planned, and the silent exodus UK workers are making is leaving gaps in critical roles from healthcare to construction. These UK jobs market challenges are not short-term hurdles but long-term risks to stability.
With a UK skills shortage 2025 already on the horizon, employers are struggling to find qualified talent, while younger workers face uncertain prospects in a tightening labour environment. The UK workforce crisis explained through data and case studies shows how labour market pressures are directly tied to productivity loss and a slowdown in growth. Predictions for a UK economic slowdown 2025 are increasingly linked to this shortage of workers, making it clear that economic resilience is tied to solving this puzzle. UK migration and workforce impact debates highlight whether new policies can close the gap or whether industries will have to restructure permanently. The future of UK employment market now depends on decisions made today, balancing immigration reform, investment in training, and adapting to technological change. This video unpacks the depth of the crisis, the silent drivers behind the shrinking workforce, and what it really means for the UK economy in the years ahead.
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Thatcher and Blair!
8:45….many of those jobs have been outsourced to cheaper countries such as Asia and Eastern Europe due to remote working. As they don't pay enough for UK staff.
I used to work with violent muggers at a company called Brook Pace in Staples Corner north London – bad for mental health
INHERITANCE.
Think you have it wrong – Romanians did not come to work they came to steal everything.
Everyone who can is leaving and being replaced by government imported non-tax paying 'Deliveroo driver's'
Can't they open the borders for doctors and engineers? Oh wait..
11:30
Commuting costs, as well as accommodation costs on an Inside IR35 contract, means that some contract work costs cannot be offset against tax. If income to pay costs is being taxed, then two thirds (66%) more new income needs to be earnt to replace that already taxed income. If I am offered an Inside IR35 contract that uses up all of my zero-rated annual personal tax allowance, then I reject it. IR35 tax rules make a lot of contracts that require expensive commutes and over-night stays unviable.
Last stages of Monopoly. We just watch the richest win. We all lose.
The matrix they all know matrix that’s what’s happening
…the INVADERS don't work?
Why work better off on benefits keep it going well all have nothing.
Because they're importing pedophiles, rapists and grooming gangs in replacement to actual Skilled Workers. 😢
People can't live with salaries in UK easy answer
£12.21 per hour National Living Wage work 14 hours a day give you £170.94 x 31 days £5299.14 x 12 £63.589.68. One bed in London £1,280 per month out side £900.00 to £1000.00 you have to tax out of this and then the bills and food and car travel cost, clothes, shoes, I would say holiday but working 7 days for 365 days you not going to get one. I think people have just had enough and see no matter how hard you work life is going backwards, and you see companies making more and more at the expense of the worker.
Why work hard for the government to take 40% of your legacy when you die retire early and spend it all
Corporations ate their seed corn.
Given what you say why are so many people umemployed and find it very difficult to get jobs especially young people.
Importing third world scum bags. The wealthy are leaving in droves and the working class are getting screwed by their own government. Civil war is inevitable
System and administration wrong young citizens no work get allowance make young generations lazy 😂
Oh so they can't use EU workers.. because they are now not in EU.. tough luck .. go make more UK babies.
I am trying to do my best. I am 75 years old and still working 40 + hour week as a multi-skilled engineer. I have asked for part time work four times but my business will not accommodate this. I will soon leave the workforce and take my skills out of the workforce due to the inflexibility of my employer (a large multi-national).
Advice to younger people: don't take the first crappy job that comes along. You'll be typecast by it.
Going to wrok get told what to do have your times manged by some manager and be broke. Stay at home play computer games etc etc and be broke.
Maybe people can't live the way U lot want people to work till U die without any care because that's what is happening and put immigration being put before U were Ur paying tax and jobs are going with Ur taxes alot are leaving and as for care for people it's because there is no care no more U haven't a choice
i am interested in doing apprenticeship in uk and i live in india but government is not interested in hiring me
Naa, it's their fault because they don't want to hire young people like me. It's because they said young people like me don't have enough experience, but the truth is my CV has full of self employed jobs, but then they are looking for useless qualifications or degree. This is too much.
They are coming to Germany haha
Migrants accounfor 100% of UK population growth.
Surprisingly fair video that doesn't blame foreigners, including previous immigrants, for everything. Well done 👍🏽
Another overlooked factor is extreme bullying in the workplace that decimates people's psyche.
Indian can fill this gap , pakistani Bangladeshi and afgans are not Indians Indian ideology is very much seperate from these radicals groups
Good video 👍🏼
Just a reminder from Pole. You wanted us to leave 😉
Even with influx of few hundred thousands of hong kongers?
Shrinking workforce my ass most of the job adverts are fake and hundreds of slavers apply for them.