Britain has emerged as the worst-performing country in the G7 for workforce participation since the Covid pandemic, after an exodus of half a million people at a time of record levels of long-term sickness.
Figures from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) showed the UK’s labour force participation – the percentage of working-age adults either in work or job hunting – was 78.6% in the final three months of 2022, down from 79.5% in the same period at the end of 2019.
