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‘A crisis like no other’: one in three practices

to cut jobs says RIBA
15 MAY, 2020 BY GREG PITCHER

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Job losses are expected at nearly a third of architecture practices over the next three Online architecture events attacked
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months, research from the RIBA has revealed

The institute’s April Future Trends Survey found that 31 per cent of respondents anticipated a reduction in Calls for retrofit drive to spark post-
permanent headcount at their company by July, as workload expectations hit a record low.  Covid ‘green economic recovery’

Covid-19 has hit the profession hard, with widespread furloughing of staff, pay cuts and project
cancellations, and social distancing disrupting work on site. The RIBA President is no Wolf of
Wall Street

The RIBA said its poll last month uncovered ‘deep concern about what is to come’.

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Indeed the future workload index plummeted to -82, by far the lowest number in the 11 years it has been concept design in inverted contest
calculated. More than four in ve respondents expected to be quieter in July than April.

The threat to jobs is more acute at larger rms. More than half of practices employing more than 50 staff are Coronavirus: Can primary schools
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expected to make job cuts over the second quarter of this year. All rms in this size category predicted
workloads will reduce.

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sector work – about which respondents were most optimistic – had a record low gure. Tunnel job

All regions were very pessimistic, with a marginally less gloomy view from the North of England than from Gender pay gap 2020: Architecture’s
slow-to-shift rift remains
London.

The RIBA said four in 10 projects had been put on hold since 1 March, while one in seven workers had been
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furloughed. helping to feed NHS frontline staff

RIBA executive director of professional services Adrian Dobson said the profession was facing ‘a crisis like no
other’.

‘Workload recovery will depend on the speed and nature of our move out of lockdown, and on how much
architectural and construction capacity has been preserved,’ he said.

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‘As the sector adapts to new ways of working, the RIBA will lobby for continued protection of jobs and
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desperately needs. This also means harnessing the expertise of architects who have the skills to re-mobilise
communities and enable safe returns to workplaces and school.’

Earlier this week a director at one AJ100 practice, who asked not to be named, warned that the extension of
the government’s furlough scheme was only delaying a major round of job cuts later in the year. They told the
AJ: ‘The scheme is masking redundancies which will have to be put in place once this prop is removed.

’It’s di cult to assess the magnitude of this right now, but it’s bound to be signi cant.’

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