With the massive changes that are taking place
with the UK economy, it is becoming difficult for statistical
agencies to get the exact figure of the happenings there. While
people are losing their jobs, the unemployment rate stays stable at
3.9%, which is where it has been since the beginning of the
year.

Despite the difficulties in interpreting the
official figures, everyone is drawing conclusions based on the
outcome. There have been a 20% drop in hours worked between the first
and last weeks of March indicating the impact of the lockdown on
activity and jobs. The 170,000 drop in job vacancies in the three
months to April suggests that those unfortunate enough to lose their
jobs are going to struggle to find new ones. Based on the number of
people seeking unemployment benefits from the Government, they are
close to three million people.

Since this seems to be evident, the Government
began preparing for the worst and started encouraging people to start
visiting smaller businesses. While they were expecting to see a
significant improvement in August, the month started slowly. People
who have seen the initial stages of the pandemic with many being sick
and the healthcare system failing them did not want to put themselves
in unnecessary risk. However, more people were leaving their homes
toward the end of the month.

The unfortunate part is that the same trend was
planning out in other countries and did not end on the best not.
Inevitably there was a second wave of the pandemic, and that was one
of the biggest fears of the same happening in the UK. However, the
Government was making sure that everyone took precautions, balancing
out the lives of the people and the economy.

With offices open, people were following all
the protocols put in place, with the most significant ones being that
people should only step out of the house if they had to. Wearing
masks and

making sure that they maintained the right
distance from one another were another two primary requirements. This
change meant that most people could not visit their offices since
they would be more than the capacity of their office, which started
the trend of most people remote working and getting everything done
without visiting the office unless they had
to.

There were changes taking place in workplaces
as well. Video, phone, and work calls meant coordinating everything
remotely, which further meant, employers were not seeing their people
as often as they should. This lead employers to start conducting
background checks on their people. They got these done through the
DBS check, which provided
information on past criminal
records and
anything
else that
an employer
should know
before
hiring
someone.

Additionally, some jobs needed to make sure
employers records were clear and that people could work with sections
like older adults or very young children. For companies that did not
need thorough background checks, they could handle the
CRB check.