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Sian Wickersham
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Senior Lecturer in Teacher Education and Professional Learning
Previously Primary School Teacher
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In 2023 and 2024, net job creation was entirely due to incumbent firms expanding their workforces. This contrasts with most of the period since the global financial crisis, where the majority of net job creation came from entering firms creating more jobs than exiting firms destroyed.
December 8, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Today we published our annual bulletin Trends in UK business dynamism and productivity: www.ons.gov.uk/economy/econ...

To help users explore the rich detail in the business dynamism statistics, we are also piloting an interactive dashboard: ons-dynamism.shinyapps.io/lbd_dashboar...
December 8, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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As today's National Statistical blog explains, our microdata work supports the ONS Plan for Economic Statistics. Linked Employer-Employee Data will support quality improvement in labour market statistics, and deepen our understanding of economic dynamism. blog.ons.gov.uk/2025/12/08/h...
How firm-level data improves our understanding of productivity
For a few years now the ONS has been going beyond its traditional measures of productivity to look at how individual firms are performing. In this blog Sumit Dey-Chowdhury explains how these data, upd
blog.ons.gov.uk
December 8, 2025 at 11:01 AM