The CIPD is urging employers to do more to support workers anxious about the UK’s decision to leave the EU, and not to cut back on training and development at this time, after a survey underlined high levels of pessimism about the future.

Public sector workers, voluntary sector workers and young workers are feeling particularly pessimistic about the future as a result of the UK’s vote to leave the EU, according to the survey by the CIPD of more than 1,000 working adults. The survey asked workers questions including how they felt about...