Thread by @uk_domain_names

On 18 June 2020, I started tracking UK job losses that were mentioned in national, regional and local media.

Yesterday, 50 days later, we hit a grim milestone: over 100,000 job losses announced. (104,020 to be exact, across 359 firms.)

That's an average of over 2,000 jobs/day.

Here's the full list of firms making cuts. Please Google the specific details.

(NOTE: not all job losses will have been immediate, because there are statutory notice periods, as well as consultations with creditors or investors. But this is indicative of the scale of cuts.)

Added: my 104,020 figure will be higher than just about every number you've seen reported in the national press, because they're not making the effort to drill down into the actions of smaller firms, like I tried to. They're just watching the big headline names.

I combined two sources of information:
1. Daily "jobs" headlines on Newsnow.co.uk
2. Meticulous, day-by-day scouring of Google News, using the search string below:

(job|jobs|roles|positions|staff|employees|redundant|redundancy|redundancies|"in administration"|cva)

"But Edwin, that sounds like a huge amount of effort."

"Thanks for noticing that. Yes, it was. But somebody had to keep track. And since nobody seemed to be doing so, it might as well have been me."

BTW, if you appreciate meticulous, sourced research, there's a 45-page appendix in my book "Slaying Brexit Unicorns" that details over 280 impacts of Brexit, including job losses, asset moves, etc. Covers the period from the referendum to September 2019.
amazon.co.uk/Slaying-Brexit…