Job offers fell by nearly 25% y/y in April: Grant Thornton
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In April, there was a clear deterioration in the labor market in Poland and the number of new job offers decreased by 24.4 percent year-on-year as compared to a decline of 7.5 percent y/y in March, according to Grant Thornton’s report “Labor market during Covid-19 – May 2020”, published on May 8.
The decline in recruitment in the tourism, transport and catering industries significantly underestimates the number of new job offers. However, despite the decrease in offers, experts indicate that entrepreneurs in Poland are still willing to employ in grocery stores, courier companies and warehouses. The number of benefits has been significantly limited by employers, though.
The survey showed that more than half of job offers in April 2020 were directed to manual workers compared to 28 percent a year ago. On the other hand, the percentage of intellectual job offers fell to 47 percent from 72 percent.
The survey described in this report was conducted considering real job offers published on job sites pracuj.pl and olx.pl in between March 10 and April 30 of 2019 and 2020. The results regarding benefits and requirements in job offers were conducted on a random sample of 750 offers.
