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Practices ‘increasingly cautious’ about staffing as sector confidence weakens, says RIBA report

By 2024-11-20T13:02:00

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October has seen rising pessimism across workloads and recruitment compared to the previous month

According to RIBA’s monthly outlook survey, architectural staff recruitment fell back in October, while overall industry confidence took a hit.

The most recent RIBA Future Trends staffing index shows that 81% of surveyed firms expect their number of permanent staff to plateau over the next three months, with 9% of practices expecting an increase and the same number anticipating job cuts.

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