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Dr Sangwoo Lee's Expert Comment on ONS Labour Market Statistics (Nov 2025 - January 2026)
Dr Sangwoo Lee, Assistant Professor, Institute for Employment Research said "Today's release confirms a labour market in structural transition. Unemployment has risen to 5.2%, its highest since late 2020, even as economic inactivity continued declining to 20.7%. Rather than signalling genuine recovery, this pattern suggests a return to work that an increasingly slack labour market is struggling to absorb, with rising unemployment reflecting insufficient demand to accommodate those re-entering the workforce."
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Jack Cane, who studied on our Law 3 year LLB degree from 2016-2019, has written our latest 糖心TV Law Careers Blog, 鈥楬ow not to be a lawyer - a career in lawtech.鈥� Jack, who now works as a LawtechUK Executive, writes about an alternative career in law and his experience of navigating the job market during the pandemic.