The HR-as-a-service startup Kaatch, a recognized leader in future-of-work innovation, has unveiled #WelcomeBack. This crucial program addresses a significant need within the insurance sector by offering a career relaunch opportunity to professionals who have been absent from the job market for more than a year.

Madrid, December 10, 2025. Although there is no official data that specifically measures how many qualified professionals are on a career break in the United Kingdom, figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), the OECD's Education at a Glance report, and Graduate Labour Market Statistics, calendar year 2024 (UK Government)* allow us to estimate that nearly 2 million people with higher education are currently outside the labour market (unemployed or inactive). These professionals, especially women aged between 25 and 44, would be willing to take advantage of a new employment opportunity if it were adapted to their specific needs.

Pausing a professional career is not an exception. It is a reality derived from many reasons: personal decisions, gender gaps, lack of opportunities, internal reorganization processes, simple market movements, or even difficult life situations such as having to care for relatives, dealing with health problems, or facing circumstances that force a halt to one's professional path. It is not a lack of capability. It is talent that, for various reasons, has temporarily fallen off the radar.

This talent, educated, experienced, with technical, operational, and also technological knowledge, is what we call professionals on a career break: individuals who could provide value from day one if someone were to bet on them again. "We are talking about specialists in insurance, finance, or technology, but also about resilient professionals who have developed unique competencies precisely because of what they have experienced," notes Emmanuel Djengue, CEO and co-founder of Kaatch.co.

Kaatch is now aiming to revive this pool of talent with a program that formally recognizes the expertise and potential contribution of individuals who took a career break but remain fully prepared.

With #WelcomeBack, Kaatch becomes the bridge between this talent that wants to return to the world of work and the insurance sector, which is actively seeking profiles that can deliver distinct value.

Generating real impact on career returnees

#WelcomeBack is a necessary and relevant initiative "because it makes visible profiles that the labour market is not looking at," assures Djengue. "We are referring, for example, to all those professional women in the technology area who decided to step away from the working world due to personal reasons and who have extensive experience and superior knowledge that allows them to contribute from day one."

This program is being launched simultaneously in the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, France, and Spain, countries where this phenomenon also occurs: professionals on a career break with technical knowledge, operational understanding, and strategic vision, who could return to work if they were given a new opportunity.

"Converting this long-term unemployment into active professionals is one of the greatest competitive levers that any sector competing for the best talent has before it," concludes Djengue.
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Sources consulted for own estimation:

• Office for National Statistics (ONS)
• OECD-Education at a Glance
• Graduate Labour Market Statistics, calendar year 2024 (UK Government)

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