Job offers number fell in May by over 40% y/y: Grant Thornton
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In May in Poland, the number of job offers decreased by 41.6 percent year-on-year and increased by 37.7 percent month-on-month, according to a study conducted by Grant Thornton, a London-headquartered multinational professional services network, and Element, an IT company.
The study entitled “How the labor market in Poland has changed due to the economic crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic” shows that in May 2019 the increase in the number of job offers was 16 percent month-on-month. In April 2020, the decrease in the number of new offers was 50.7 percent year-on-year.
In May 2020, on the 50 largest job sites in Poland, employers put up 195,100 new job offers – 138,800 fewer than in May 2019. The data was collected using the automatic job monitoring tool developed by Element.
Meanwhile, according to Eurostat, the European Union’s statistical office, the unemployment rate in Poland, after seasonal adjustment was 2.9 percent in April 2020 – the same as in March. The number of unemployed in April was 503,000 as against 495,000 in March.
The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in the eurozone was 7.3 percent in April 2020 as against 7.1 percent in the previous month, Eurostat added. The unemployment rate was 7.6 percent in April 2019. In the entire EU, this indicator was 6.6 percent in April as against 6.4 percent a month earlier and 6.8 percent a year earlier.
