Annabel Venning wishes she’d never left London. It would have been the ideal place for her rural children to start their careers
Poor Gen Z. Their education blighted by Covid, the idea of ever owning property a distant dream and now, just as they try to step on the first rung of the career ladder, it has been blowtorched by a toxic combination of tax and National Insurance rises, economic gloom and the insidious march of AI nabbing their jobs. The recruitment company Adzuna has linked a 32-per-cent drop in vacancies for junior roles – graduate and non-graduate – since 2022 to the launch of ChatGPT that year, while BT and Amazon have decided to cut recruitment of humans in favour of AI. As the parent of two Gen Z-ers – one midway through university, another a year out of it – I feel for all their generation, and for the employers who would dearly love to take on new talent if they weren’t being clobbered by new taxes and regulations. Many...
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