At the end of last year, economists were expecting the UK to enter a recession and companies were adjusting their plans accordingly.
“It’s going to be a challenging 12 months,” said Janine Chamberlin, UK country manager and vice-president at LinkedIn, when Raconteur spoke to her in December 2022.
With big-tech jobs already being cut in large numbers at the time, both she and James Reed, chair and CEO of recruitment firm Reed, were expecting large-scale redundancies in the UK, given the widely predicted economic downturn.