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"Fragmented" jobs market posing particular recruitment challenges

An unprecedented misalignment between economic and labour trends is causing a "fragmented market" where more employees are intending to leave their jobs, at the same time as more intend to stay, Gartner research shows.

Between March and June, employees' confidence in job availability has risen two percentage points to 56%, despite the possibility of a recession, Gartner's latest Global Talent Monitor research has found.

"You've kind of got this talk of recession in the background – so people are experiencing that in terms of inflationary pressure and interest rate rises – so what that's kind of doing is it's making some employees more cautious," says Gartner vice president Aaron McEwan...