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The past two years have turned the recruitment sector on its head, with the chaos of the COVID-19 pandemic followed last year by the “great resignation”, as huge numbers of UK workers took stock of their career paths in the wake of the pandemic. Along with the general increase in M&A that occurred during 2021, as dealmakers returned to the marketplace en masse, this helped drive M&A activity in the UK recruitment sector to a 10-year high by the end of 2021, according to a year-end...
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