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.