Meet two members of Britain's 'missing million'

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The latest Office for National Statistics figures show that there were 1.29 million vacancies in the economy, almost half a million more than before the pandemic, and more than the 1.28 million unemployed jobseekers'

Caroline Dodson, 63, retired in August 2020, aged 61, after COVID changed her perspective on working life.

"So I started to think, if I don't need to buy the things that I'm buying to go to work, what might be possible? "So many people were dying, or getting long COVID, and I thought, live while you can, who knows what's around the corner? And while I'm still quite active and fit, it was important to make the most of those years if I could. And so in August 2020, I gave up work.

"I understand there's a massive gap in skill and knowledge in the industry as a result. I'd been working on the product that I worked on since 1987, so that is an awful lot of experience walking out of the door. "Before COVID I was ambitious, curious, I loved learning, I loved socialising, I'm a Greek-Cypriot, so it's in my blood. I spent time with friends, I was part of a cycling club, every Saturday I would ride 40, 50, 60 miles, and not long before I got COVID I did a 100-mile bike ride for charity.

 

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