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had a random thought this morning to ask perplexity (as it seems to be the only ai that does both: provides good results and always gives references to the sources): how many people work for small businesses in the UK?
occasionally we hear that in America 60-70% of the jobs are provided by small businesses.. so decided to check the situation here..
the result: 13.1 million people in the UK are employed by small businesses = 48% of all private sector jobs.
then, decided to ask about the gov jobs > got the answer: "As of December 2023, the public sector in the UK employed approximately 5.79 million people, which accounted for 17.5% of the total workforce."
it seemed that somewhere lots of people are lost.. and checked the report https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-9366/CBP-9366.pdf that was mentioned by Perplexity as one of the sources for information. Bang! Employment rate in the UK for people aged 16-64 was 74.8% (date of the report = 12 November 2024).
.. holly
.. all I wanted to see, as a small business owner, was to check how important to the economy are small businesses.. just to discover that the 25.2% (people aged 16-64 in the UK) are unemployed .. holly
can this be correct? isn't a healthy unemployment rate for a top-tier country below 10% (ideally below 5%)?
.. yes, students need to be removed from this equation.. don't have the numbers at hand and don't want to torture chatgpt .. work needs to be done.. we are working on a cool update here at Acorn
.. some numbers.. huhhh
occasionally we hear that in America 60-70% of the jobs are provided by small businesses.. so decided to check the situation here..
the result: 13.1 million people in the UK are employed by small businesses = 48% of all private sector jobs.
then, decided to ask about the gov jobs > got the answer: "As of December 2023, the public sector in the UK employed approximately 5.79 million people, which accounted for 17.5% of the total workforce."
it seemed that somewhere lots of people are lost.. and checked the report https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-9366/CBP-9366.pdf that was mentioned by Perplexity as one of the sources for information. Bang! Employment rate in the UK for people aged 16-64 was 74.8% (date of the report = 12 November 2024).
.. holly
.. all I wanted to see, as a small business owner, was to check how important to the economy are small businesses.. just to discover that the 25.2% (people aged 16-64 in the UK) are unemployed .. holly can this be correct? isn't a healthy unemployment rate for a top-tier country below 10% (ideally below 5%)?
.. yes, students need to be removed from this equation.. don't have the numbers at hand and don't want to torture chatgpt
.. work needs to be done.. we are working on a cool update here at Acorn.. some numbers.. huhhh
