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.
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.
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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.
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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.