Recruitment struggles leaving a third of businesses short-staffed every week

A third (34 per cent) of UK businesses are finding themselves short-staffed at least once a week due to worker illness and the difficulty of recruiting enough people to fill gaps, reveals new research by online marketplace for flexible and temporary work, Indeed Flex.
The survey of HR teams and managers responsible for organising staff rotas also found that an additional 23 per cent of businesses are under-staffed at least once a month.
Among companies finding themselves short-staffed, half (49