Workforce & skills
"Among the advantages we value in the county are good quality labour and good labour relations" - Pfizer, whose European R&D centre at Sandwich, Kent, is the company's largest facility outside the US employing over 3,600 highly skilled people.
London and the South East has the largest pool of labour in a single region in Europe, with over 11 million potential workers. Kent and Medway itself has a population of over 1.6 million and a workforce of more than 780,000 people. Significant additional labour can be found close by - more than 100,000 people commute from Kent into London, who in many cases would rather work closer to home.
The local workforce includes a high percentage of those in roles working within a wide range of industries. Salaries are very competitive compared to the rest of the South East, and London in particular. Kent also has access to free and subsidised training. The UK has one of the most attractive labour environments in Europe with competitive wage costs and low levels of labour disputes.
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