Il work is starting to feel the slowdown of the global and European economy. They are approximately 472 thousand le assumptions scheduled by companies for the month of October and 1,2 million for the October-December quarter, in drop 1,2% and 1,4% respectively. There finding difficulty of personnel reported by companies now accounts for 51% of planned hires. It is the photograph taken from the Excelsior Information System Bulletin, created by Unioncamere e Anpal.
Hiring: good construction, bad manufacturing and services
The industry plans around 150 thousand hires in October (+1,7% compared to last year) and 365 thousand for the October-December quarter (-1,4% on the year). The manufacturing sector is driving demand construction with 56 thousand new contracts scheduled in the month and 132 thousand in the quarter (+6,3% and +1,1% compared to the same period of 2022). The sectors manufacturing they show, however, a slight decline in the month (-0,9% compared to last year) which appears destined to worsen in the quarter (-2,8% compared to a year ago).
The slowdown of the services which plan a total of 322 thousand hires in the month (-2,5% compared to October 2022) and 839 thousand in the quarter (-1,3% compared to the 2022 quarter). Forecasts above all are down education e healthcare among services to people (-12,5% compared to October 2022 and -11,9% in the October – December quarter). The businesses of business they report, however, a growing demand with 66 thousand hirings in October (+1,8% compared to 12 months ago) and 177 thousand hirings in the October-December quarter (+1,5% compared to the same period in 2022).
During the month, the decline affected businesses of all sizes, with greater intensity in micro and medium-sized businesses (-1,6% and -2,6% respectively), with the exception of those with over 250 employees (+1,1%) .
Work: fixed-term contracts are the driving force
I fixed-term contracts represent 54% of scheduled revenue, followed by those a time undetermined (99 thousand units, 21%), those on temporary contracts (51 thousand, 10,7%), other contracts not employed (21 thousand, 4,4%), apprenticeship contracts (25 thousand; 5,4%), other employee contracts (13 thousand; 2,9%) and collaboration contracts (7 thousand; 1,6%).
For 51% of companies it is difficult to find staff
51% of businesses can't find staff: especially the skilled workers (66,3%) and the professions specifications and those skilled in commercial activities (53%). Among the former there is a lack of specialized workers involved in finishing constructions (around 76% are difficult to find), casters, welders, tinsmiths, boilermakers, metal carpentry assemblers (71,8%). There is also a lack of workers in catering activities (64,6%) and technicians in the engineering field (64,1%).
Also increasing demand for immigrant workers with 99 thousand entries scheduled in the month (+11 thousand compared to the same period in 2022), equal to 21% of the total contracts.
At a territorial level they are the companies of the distribution South and Islands (with 119 thousand hirings in October) to record negative data compared to a year ago (-8 thousand), while the forecasts for the month are still positive for Northwest (147 miles), northeast (108 thousand) and Centro (98mila).
