Three thousand more job vacancies: 36 thousand positions to be filled

While more than 70,000 jobs are unfilled in Hungary today, there are almost 100,000 foreign workers in the country and more than 200,000 inactive people. Emigration and foreign employment is a decades-old phenomenon and has a clear negative impact on the Hungarian economy. Why do Hungarians go abroad and why do they come to work here from Asia?

We need to be prepared for hybrid working in the longer term: more than a third of Hungarian intellectual workers spend at least one or two days working from home, according to Hungary's first national representative productivity survey. A quarter of those surveyed expect that when they go to the corporate IT helpdesk, they will not understand each other because they speak a different language. The majority do not use a common knowledge repository or collaboration tool for their work, and most use Excel to record and delegate tasks instead of dedicated applications. The Productivity Index, based on the research, provides a quantitative measure of how efficiently Hungarian white-collar workers work.

In 2023, 770,000 Hungarians will be living abroad - calculated the Egyensúly Institute on the basis of data from the Hungarian Central Statistical Office, Eurostat and the United Nations in its study entitled "How to lure Hungarians who have emigrated abroad back home?". According to the institute, although Hungarians working abroad send 2-3% of Hungary's annual GDP back home, the country could gain even more by luring some of them back.

The tax credit for under-25s, introduced two years ago, is still the subject of debate: some argue that it has had a motivating effect and has activated young workers, while others have experienced a significant generational wage gap. In addition, how employers face the problem of a sudden drop in salary at the age of 25, which also "fuels the fire" in terms of turnover and wage demands within the company, is a challenge. Can career starters under 25 really take home higher salaries than their older, more experienced colleagues? What measures should be taken to ease the pay squeeze and what should be avoided? The HR services group Humán Centrum has compiled a collection of the most common experiences and practices to date.

The majority of Hungarians are aware that eating during the day can significantly improve or even worsen our performance at work, yet in practice we tend to forget this, says Eisberg's Colourful Bowls Research conducted on Opinio. Three quarters of those surveyed in the representative study spend half an hour or less on lunch, and a fifth less than 15 minutes. The research also showed that the majority of Hungarian workers swear by home cooking at work.

At the national level, employee turnover decreased significantly, falling to 28 percent last year from 33 percent a year earlier. However, companies should not breathe a sigh of relief as this is still twice the acceptable level. And the decline is not due to easing labour market tensions, but to the economic difficulties of the past year and the restructuring of the labour market, according to this year's HR-Evolution national turnover survey.