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Getting back to work

The world of work has been turned upside down over the past few years. From millions of people being put on furlough, through the shift to homeworking and to the “great resignation”, the job market has been in constant turmoil. So it’s not surprising that the share price of recruitment has been see-sawing over the past two-and-a-half year. At the start of 2020, its shares were trading at 165p. They then plunged below 100p by late spring, before bouncing back to 120p. They then fell again to 102p in November 2020, before news of a vaccine pushed them back up to pre-pandemic levels by summer 2021. However, in the past year they have fallen to 115p.

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