It is known that 7 out of 10 large companies have not yet made plans for new hires in the second half of this year or are not planning to hire any.
The Korea Economic Research Institute (Hankyung-yeon), affiliated with the Federation of Korean Industries, commissioned Research & Research, an opinion polling agency, to survey new hiring plans in the second half of this year among top 500 companies. .
More than half (54.5%) of companies did not have a new hiring plan, and 13.3% said they had no plans to hire new employees.
The proportion of these companies was 67.8%, down from 74.2% in the same period last year.
Of the companies that set up a new hiring plan in the second half of the year, 53.8% said they would increase hiring compared to last year, 35.9% of companies with similar hiring size to last year, and 10.3% of companies that wanted to reduce hiring compared to last year.
However, it is interpreted that some companies with sufficient employment potential are doing their best to create jobs.
When asked why they did not hire new employees or increase the size of the recruitment, 32.4% of the responding companies cited the deterioration of the domestic and international economy and industry due to the prolonged Corona 19.
Difficulties in restructuring the existing workforce due to inflexibility of employment (14.7%) and an increase in labor costs such as the minimum wage increase (11.8%) followed.
On the other hand, companies that said they would increase new hires said the reason was that the economic situation in the industry to which they belong was good or expected to improve (38.1%). There were many.