For the Swiss labour market is a good place to Start is to be expected from 2020: the bottom line is that companies want to create, according to the latest labour market barometer of the personnel service provider Manpower, new positions. Only in the lake Geneva region, employment is expected to stagnate.
Four percent of the surveyed employers expect to see a build-up of the staff from January until March 2020, such as Manpower announced on Tuesday. Only 2 percent expect a reduction. The big majority wants to keep their workforce stable. Below-the-line season, this results in an employment Outlook seasonally adjusted by plus 4 per cent for Switzerland. In the previous quarter, the labour market barometer stood 3 percent Plus, a year ago, 2 percent. For the Barometer, Manpower has interviewed in October in the Switzerland of 750 employers.
The Swiss labour market was performing well in a time of great uncertainty and communicates Manpower Switzerland-Director Gianni Valeri in the message. The attractiveness of the business location from the slopes but from the result of the framework agreement between Switzerland and the EU, warns of this.
Broad-based growth
The better sentiment in the job market, according to the communication by the majority of the regions and industries. Particularly pronounced in the Region of Central and North – Western Switzerland as well as in the sectors of manufacturing and energy/water supply.
The employer of the lake would be reported as the only Swiss Region of no growth plans. You expect according to Manpower, stagnation on the labour market compared to the previous quarter.
In international comparison, the optimism for the local labour market, see. France, for example, reported among the neighbouring countries only to a higher value. In Germany, Austria and Italy the values were on the decline. At best, the mood on the labour market in Japan and Greece, as well as in Taiwan and the United States. (Dec/sda)
Created: 10.12.2019, 08:51 PM
