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Headcount growth flattening amid "year of productivity"

Recruiters can expect much more scrutiny of hiring investments and an overall flattening of headcounts as organisations explore other ways to grow, according to a workplace futurist.

With the shifting job landscape and the unemployment rate predicted to increase to between 4–4.5% by the end of the year, organisations will be doing a lot of "rightsizing" to become more efficient, says PwC head of future of work Dr Ben Hamer.

"It's not about doing more with less [or] doing more with what we've got – it's more around rightsizing than downsizing," he has told RCSA's recent Talent X conference...