United Kingdom (UK): publishing activities industry employees 2018

In 2018, the number of employees in the publishing activities industry in the United Kingdom decreased by 11,147 employees (-7.9 percent) since 2017. Therefore, 2018 marks the lowest number of employees in this industry during the observed period.
The relationship of employer to employee exists when there is an agreement, which may be formal or informal, between an enterprise and a person, normally entered into voluntarily by both parties, whereby the person works for the enterprise in return for remuneration in cash or in kind.

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Total number of employees in the publishing activities industry in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2009 to 2018

Characteristic	Number of employees
2018	130,026
2017	141,173
2016b	139,145
2015	145,194
2014	143,224
2013	138,294
2012	155,884
2011	137,665
2010	148,906
2009	167,333

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March 2024

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United Kingdom

Survey time period

2009 to 2018

Supplementary notes

b: Break in time series.
The source adds the following information: Number of employees is defined as those persons who work for an employer and who have a contract of employment and receive compensation in the form of wages, salaries, fees, gratuities, piecework pay or remuneration in kind. A worker from an employment agency is considered to be an employee of that temporary employment agency and not of the unit (customer) in which they work
Data coverage corresponds to Section J58 of CE Rev 2.

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