Manpower: fewer employers planning redundancies

According to the Manpower Employment Outlook Survey, 17 percent of Hungarian employers intend to reduce their workforces during the second quarter of 2012 while only 14 percent of employers plan to increase their workforces. The Hungarian Net Employment Outlook is minus 3 percent, which is a significant improvement, after the negative record of the previous quarter.

In the previous quarterly survey forecasted for the first qarter of 2012, 22 percent of the employers planned dismissals, and only 8 percent reported recruitments.

Manpower told MTI, that the representative survey was carried out by interviewing 770 Hungarian employers. 66 percent of the respondents are not planning to change the number in their workforces during the second quarter of 2012.  (MTI)