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Coronavirus and the economy. Confederation Lewiatan: the pandemic changed the labor market

The coronavirus has diametrically changed the labor market, assesses the Lewiatan Confederation. According to the organizations of entrepreneurs, it manifests itself, among other things, in the fact that employers hold recruitment en masse. As added, declines in HR services herald the end of the employee market era.

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As indicated in the release, the labor market has changed dramatically as a result of the coronavirus epidemic, which is reflected in the second quarter of 2020 by the results of companies belonging to the Polish HR Forum, a member of the Lewiatan Confederation.

Significant drop in turnover

“Employers are holding back recruitment processes en masse, which reflects a 31% decline in the sales of these services by PFHR member companies compared to the previous quarter,” we read. Their value in the second quarter of this year. was PLN 27 million. “We recorded a 9% decrease in the implementation of international recruitment projects, the turnover of which in the analyzed period amounted to PLN 3.8 million” – added.

As noted in the statement by Piotr Dziedzic from the board of the Polish HR Forum, in many industries the first reaction of employers to the coronavirus was to freeze all recruitment decisions. – We still have industries that recruit: the entire IT sector, logistics and distribution, shared services centers, but it will take us a long time to return to the pre-crisis situation – he pointed out.

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Temporary workers

According to the Lewiatan Confederation, the number of temporary workers has decreased by 25% compared to the same period last year. “Comparing the data from quarter to quarter, this decrease is not so drastic and amounts to 5 percent, unfortunately it is accompanied by a significant, 25 percent decrease in the number of hours worked by these employees” – we read.

In the second quarter, PFHR member companies employed a total of 67 thousand. temporary workers. The number of hours worked converted into full-time jobs amounted to 27 thousand. – We lost a large number of temporary workers in the first quarter of this year. Some of the companies we work with are related to foreign suppliers, e.g. from China, and therefore limited their activities long before the lockdown in Poland – explained Anna Wicha, President of the Polish HR Forum.

She pointed out that the government’s “anti-crisis shield did not take into account this form of employment where the downtime was not at the employer’s, ie the agency, but at the user’s employer”. – Fortunately, there is a light in the tunnel and slowly growing interest in temporary work in the third quarter – she assessed.

In the second quarter, by 18 percent. compared to the previous quarter, the value of the temporary labor market also decreased. PFHR member companies achieved a turnover of PLN 535 million, which is approx. 30 percent. lower than in the same period last year

It added that the crisis related to the coronavirus did not stop Poles from becoming interested in going abroad to work. “In the second quarter of 2020, the turnover of member companies in the field of posting employees as part of the provision of services amounted to PLN 71 million and was 22 percent higher than in the previous quarter and 19 percent higher than in the previous year” – indicated.

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