The problem of employing employees is reported by nearly half of the enterprises operating in Poland – 49.8 percent That's all 12 percentage points more than last year (then 36 percent pointed to him. companies) – according to the “Barometer of Labor Market” GROUP Holding. It is worse in this respect in the case of all types of positions, although the biggest staff are the biggest problem. Employment difficulties are not 42.7 percent. companies – it is over 10 percentage points less than last year and at least since 2017.
Companies are looking for people to work. And they do not find
13.3 percent surveyed companies had a problem with recruitment of employees at all levels, 16.5 percent. qualified higher -level staff, 13.1 percent qualified middle -level staff, and 10.6 percent lower -level employees. Problems with filling vacancies are most visible in trade and transport and logistics industry – At all levels, and in the case of a higher level, the public sector feels particularly strongly.
Qualified middle -level staff is the most difficult to obtain for industrial enterprises, and lower -level employees for service companies – it is significant because it is about the crucial working force for these two industries.
And now: where do these problems come from? GI Group Holding in the report mentions:
- For the high financial requirements of the candidates – this is indicated by 41 percent. percent companies
- Lack of appropriate qualifications or their adaptation to the needs of the company – 33 percent.
- Candidates resignations during recruitment – 33 percent
- No candidates – 29.9 percent
- Difficult working conditions – 23.6 percent
- Company location/Getting problems – 19.7 percent
- Working mode/shift work – 19.7 percent
HR pressure is growing
Attention is drawn to the fourth for the above reasons, i.e. No candidates. If you look at industries, it especially affects employers from the public sector (43 percent). “It is also worth noting that the main problem is not the lack of candidates – this barrier was indicated by 30 % of the respondents – but Availability of people with appropriate qualificationsready to take up employment on offered conditions” – however, the authors of the report point out.
Public employers Definitely most often (62 percent) also indicate that the reason for the difficulty in filling the vacancies is the discrepancy between how much potential candidates want to earn, and how much they are willing to pay for those looking for employees. This is also the main problem for business enterprises in trade and services (45 and 40 % respectively). Industry He points out that a shift mode can be a challenge work (36 percent), a Transport and logistics to give up candidates during recruitment (44 percent) and their lack of competence (41 percent).
How do companies deal with it? According to GI Group, they are more often looking for support in employment agencies. This method previously overtook the most popular overtime offer to cover the shortage of working strength. Increasingly, companies also decide to train or change the qualifications of those already employed.
Unemployment is growing, but it's nothing. There are worse data
The background of a difficult situation latest Data on the Central Statistical Office on the labor market according to the study of the economic activity of the population (BAEL). These are not the best data. Unemployment rate according to BAEL It was in the first quarter of this year 3.4 percent On the one hand, it is very little, but at the same time most in four years. A year ago at the same time it was at the level of 3.1 percent.
As the economists of PKO BP noted, the fact that at the beginning of the year unemployment is growing, it is nothing unusual, but the scale of this growth is unusual. It exceeds the average for many years – amounted to 0.6 percentage points (quarter to the quarter), meanwhile “in 2012-2024 foot unemployment In the first quarter, it grew with an average of 0.3 pp compared to the fourth quarter of the previous year ” – emphasizes PKO BP. In the margins, an explanation: in Bael, an unemployed person is one who actively looks for a job and is ready to take it, hence the unemployment rate counted according to this method is lower than the Ministry of Labor and CSO administered every month.
That's not all. He decreased at the same time professional activity indicator – up to 58.2 percent with 58.5 percent in the fourth quarter of last year, a The employment rate has dropped up to 56.2 percent from 56.8 percent The population of working people is 11.06 million, by 1.1 percent. less than in the last quarter of 2024, IO 0.8 percent less than a year ago. This shows another powerful challenge for the labor market – a serious demographic change and shrinking and aging of the population of our country.
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