ManpowerGroup

The employment climate is expected to be clearly improved in Greece for the last quarter of 2024 according to the latest ManpowerGroup Hiring Outlook Survey.

Based on the survey, in which 524 Greek employers participated, Greece's outlook has improved by 8 points compared to the previous quarter and by 2 points compared to last year.

IT companies in Greece are more optimistic over hiring intentions in the third quarter of 2023, with the hiring intentions rate rising to 39% from 27% in the first quarter and 6% in the second quarter of the year, ManpowerGroup said in a report on Monday.

Recruitment optimism has returned to pre-pandemic levels, with employers in 42 of the 43 countries surveyed by the ManpowerGroup Employment Outlook (MEOS) reporting stronger recruitment prospects than last year.

The survey was conducted on more than 45,000 employers.

The ManpowerGroup Employment Outlook Survey is conducted quarterly to measure employers' intentions to increase or decrease the number of employees in their workforces during the next quarter. ManpowerGroup's comprehensive forecast of employer hiring plans has been running for more than 55 years and is one of the most trusted surveys of employment activity in the world.

The number of unemployed people registered with the Manpower Organization (OAED) increased by 4.3 percent or 46,154 workers within a year, as in 2018 the figure came to 1,116,816 people, OAED data showed, despite the decline in the jobless rate.

Companies in Bulgaria are planning to increase their employees by ten percent in the last three months of 2018, according to a survey by ManpowerGroup, which surveyed 620 employers. Thus, the intentions did not change compared to the previous quarter, but there was a decrease of three percentage points compared to the same period last year, according to the data.

Greek employers who participated in ManpowerGroup's survey concerning hiring prospects for the year's last quarter discerned encouraging signs in specific sectors of the economy.

The jobless rate may remain steadily above 20 percent in Greece, but six out of 10 employers say they are finding it difficult to find the right staff for some of their job openings, according to the annual international report on the problem of a lack of people with the right skills that ManpowerGroup conducted for 2018.

The business in Bulgaria faces the biggest shortage of staff since 2011. This is the Manpower staffing survey, involving more than 600 companies, in the Talent Tolerance 2018 study.

Employment prospects are positive across all sectors of the Greek economy and all of the country's regions according to the ManpowerGroup survey of employers for the next three months. This is the best forecast recorded by the survey in at least nine years.