UK media job losses: January update

Posted by Peter Kirwan on 9 February 2009 at 23:10
Tags: Media

I didn’t feel much like blogging about job losses at the end of December. . . so I didn’t. Now, however, it’s time to put up two months’ worth of data.

In terms of reported job losses, neither December or January matched the bad months of July, September and November during 2008.

But there seem obvious reasons why this should be so. More important, I suspect, is the cumulative trend, which looks unpleasantly consistent.

It strikes me that I’m seeing fewer stories about large-scale (50+) lay-offs. But it seems unwise to suggest that there won’t be more of them in the future.

I’ve posted the detail on reported job losses for December 2008 here, via Google Docs. The numbers for January 2009 are here.

Tags: Media