"Figure 2: 13% of UK businesses reported that they were experiencing a shortage of workers in early February 2022, this has remained broadly unchanged since mid-January 2022","" "Worker shortage, businesses not permanently stopped trading, broken down by size band, weighted by count, UK, 7 to 15 February 2022","" "","" "Notes","1. Initial weighted results, Wave 50 of the Office for National Statistics' (ONS') Business Insights and Conditions Survey (BICS). 2. Bars may not sum to 100% because of rounding and percentages less than 1% being removed for disclosure purposes. 3. Size bands refer to the number of employees in a business." "Unit","Percentage of businesses" "","" "Sizeband","Not applicable","Not sure","Did not experience work shortage","Did experience work shortage" "0-9","18","5","67","10" "10-49","3","7","59","31" "50-99","1","9","47","42" "100-249","Less than 1","11","46","43" "250+","2","17","39","42" "All Size Bands Excluding 0 - 9","3","7","57","33" "All Size Bands","17","5","66","13"