Every third SME plans to recruit new workers

K&H’s SME confidence index is in the positive zone again: it is at 2 points at the moment. The expectations of medium-sized enterprises increased the most, from 4.5 points to 25 points. Small businesses climbed from 2 to 4 points. Micro-businesses are still in the negative zone, but even they have become more optimistic as their confidence level moved from minus 6 to minus 3 points. 36 percent of companies plan to recruit new workers. Twice as many, 9 percent of firms intend to hire more than 4 new employees. //