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29 Jun 2026

Sage Monthly Workforce Pulse: May 2026

Headcount in small businesses increased by 0.3% year-on-year and median gross earnings rose by 4.1%, marking a further deceleration in pay growth.
SMEReportInsightsPartnership
16 Jun 2026

Insights from London Tech Week: Exhibiting with Homewards

Joining Homewards to demo the Economic Wellbeing Explorer at at London Tech Week and to launch their new Homelessness Data Lab
Data PartnershipsImpactPartnershipInsightsCost of Living Crisis
4 Jun 2026

Sage Monthly Workforce Pulse: April 2026

Headcount among small businesses increased by 0.4% year-on-year in April and median gross earnings rose by 4.6%, a slower growth than the previous month
SMEPartnershipInsightsReport
26 Apr 2026

Sage SME Monthly Workforce Pulse: March Update

Sage SME Monthly Workforce Pulse shows that YoY gross earnings is up 4.9% while take-home pay is up 3.9% and total headcount is up by 0.3%
SMEReportInsightsPartnership
26 Feb 2026

Sage UK SMB Workforce Tracker - January 2026

The Sage UK Workforce Tracker shows that looking ahead, a lack of economic momentum is set to constrain growth in 2026
SMEInsightsPartnershipReport
27 Jan 2026

Sage SMB Workforce Tracker Update for December

Insights into the UK workforce drawn from anonymized payroll data from approximately 200,000 small businesses with millions of employees across the UK.
ReportPartnershipInsightsEconomic Wellbeing
7 Nov 2025

From Macro to Micro: Complementing Regional Analyses with Smart Data Foundry

We explore financial wellbeing with TPI to illustrate how top-down regional analyses can be enriched with bottom-up insights accessible to researchers
ResearchPartnershipEconomic Wellbeing
21 Feb 2025

Celebrating 3 Years of Smart Data Foundry!

Three years ago, Smart Data Foundry was founded with a bold mission: to unlock financial data for the public good. Since then, we’ve grown.
Partnership
13 Feb 2025

Who’s Falling Behind? New Dashboard Uncovers the Real Impact of Income Volatility

We believe data should serve people, not just institutions. Partnering with JRF’s Insight Infrastructure, we’re exposing the financial forces Britons face
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