The labor reform, which has been shaped in official statistics for months, has also been reflected on internet portals. work. information jobs published its annual report on the labor market, prepared in partnership with the company, this Wednesday. Assadnoting an unprecedented increase. hiring uncertain. The number of open positions offered by companies that guarantee permanent and full-time contracts nearly doubled (+92%) last year, exceeding one million offers during the year.
Despite the increase in the stability of the job offered, fees The ratio of current open positions is slightly worse. And that’s without taking into account the cost of living skyrocketed in the past year. Among other things, salaries remain low as there is still high competition for available jobs. According to the latest data from the Infojobs report, on average, for every offer posted, 46 candidates were willing to take it.
Temporary hiring restrictions agreed between the government, employers and unions are noted. Of the 2.7 million job offers Infojobs handled in 2022, 38% offered a full-time, permanent contract, up from 24% a year ago. In some unions, the impact of labor reform has had a significant impact, although the increase in stability has been diagonal. For example, between computer 70% of offers were already for permanent employment, and today those rates have reached 80%. But in case advert, where the proportion of fixed line offers doubled from 17% to 40%. However, profiles such as customer service have hardly changed and remain closely linked to campaigns that connect companies with third parties.
Infojobs data confirms another trend already put forward by official statistics: it’s part of what happened before temporariness it happened today discontinuous constant. The stellar figure of reform has gone from few to few (representing about 5% of the total bids posted), but the volume of open positions submitted by such a relationship has increased 12x, from 10,318 vacancies posted in 2021 to 128,225. 2022.
According to the sectors, tourism And restoration It confirms that the sector, which has expanded its workforce once again, has started to recover and that the offers published by companies in this branch on Infojobs have increased by 127% compared to the previous year. It also stands out in the wages they offer, with employers in the industry more likely to try to attract hands that they complain about lacking. Specifically, although new offers pay 5.1% more than the previous year, the average salary is still 1,600 euros gross per month (12 payments). It is the third worst paid syndicate, surpassed only by customer service and retail companies.
No trace of ‘The Great Resignation’
The labor market has largely, if not all, recovered from the Covid earthquake. For example, about the feared ‘big resignationcountries such as United States of AmericaWith labor legislation very different from that in Spain, the degree of competition for open positions remains very high. “High level unemployment and the deterrent power of compensation dismissal (those who were not blamed in the case of voluntary resignation) greatly limited the impact of this phenomenon, but did not completely eliminate it,” states the Infojobs report. The shortage of certain professionals is limited to very specific and highly qualified sectors.
And in the current situation, uncertainty There is little disengagement among workers due to the recent banking crisis or the continued rise in prices. Only 17% of those polled by Infojobs think so, compared to the 23% that existed just before the covid outbreak.
High levels of unemployment continue to allow companies to offer the same or worse working conditions in many industries because they know they will still find people. On average, every vacancy a company posts on Infojobs 46 willing candidates. Less than in 2020, when thousands of temporary workers lost their jobs and the rate increased to 1 for 72 candidates. But the current ratio is still higher than it was 1:41 in 2019.
This sufficiencyHowever, it varies by industry. And compared to profiles with fewer offers for employment, such as 18 candidates IT and TelecomThere are some very contentious things. retailwith 198 candidates per proposal. Here, the impact of having the highest unemployment rate in the European Union is clearly visualized, and because it is the worst paying sector, it is also the sector with the most people willing to work.
And all this at the same time fees New offers that are virtually unchanged from one year to the next, reflecting how people entering or re-entering the labor market start off in worse conditions given current inflation levels. Specifically, on average, companies offer compensation Annual gross 24,395 Eurosor the same, €2,032.9 gross per month (on 12 payments).