Employment figures up, in the short term at least

Recently employment has been growing very rapidly, by 2.5-2.8% per month y-o-y, and now it seems that the changes on the labor market are not related to seasonal demand, but might signal a lasting trend. Electronics and telecommunication equipment producers increased employment by almost 15%, car manufacturers by 8%, while employment at machine and electrical equipment producers rose by 6%. "Over two, three months we can see a growing demand for work," said Maria Drozdowicz from the Bureau for Investments and Economic Cycles. Longer term employment depends on investments, however, which are growing slower than anticipated. Another problem that is slowly being faced by companies is related to a shortage of specialists among potential employees. (Rzeczpospolita, p. B2) M.M.