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Number of women in employment at record level
Last year, an average of 2 million 155 thousand women of working age were employed, which increased the employment rate of women of working age between 15 and 64 to...
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PENNY will spend 3.5 billion forints on wage increases in 2025
PENNY Hungary will spend 3.5 billion forints on wage increases in 2025, thanks to which earnings will increase by an average of 7.8%. In addition, the range of benefits and...
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Six out of ten employers plan to raise wages by 2025, but at a lower rate than last year
Similar to previous years, the majority of companies implemented the promised wage increases in 2024, and in fact, more companies increased their salaries than they had originally planned. However, the...
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Artificial intelligence can help with workforce training
The application of artificial intelligence (AI) in workforce training can also provide answers to the labor market problems affecting the Western Transdanubia region, the government commissioner responsible for artificial intelligence...
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Companies operating in a hybrid model are more optimistic
In a challenging economic environment, hybrid working can also provide a competitive advantage, as these businesses are more easily able to adapt to changing economic conditions. Some form of hybrid...
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In January, the number of employed people was 4 million 684 thousand, the unemployment rate was 4.4 percent
In January 2025, the average number of employed people aged 15–74 increased by 32 thousand compared to the same period of the previous year, to 4 million 684 thousand. In...
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Average earnings to increase by 13 percent in 2024
The government is constantly working to ensure that families can manage with more and more money – emphasized Sándor Czomba, State Secretary for Employment Policy at the Ministry of National...
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Changing rules for seasonal work and casual employment
On February 1, new rules came into force regarding seasonal work, casual employment and the employment of film extras. On the one hand, these bring with them an increase in...
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Changes in simplified employment from February
From 1 February 2025, the rules for simplified employment will be amended, and with them the amount of the public charge to be paid by the employer and the calculation...
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Yettel introduces an additional month of paid leave
The telecommunications company and infrastructure provider CETIN is also introducing a unique program in Hungary for its colleagues. The employee benefit, available from 2025, provides an extra paid month of...
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Data and intuition: how can HR make good decisions in 2025?
The HR profession in Hungary is also increasingly relying on data, which can be useful for companies not only because they can provide a more accurate picture of the job...
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The recipe for successful market growth starts with a satisfied workforce
In recent years, many uncertainties have surrounded not only the major global economic players, but also their individual driving forces, the employees themselves. The coronavirus pandemic, inflationary environment, or even...
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Profession.hu: a diploma is a requirement in fewer and fewer job advertisements
For years, fewer and fewer job advertisements have required a diploma, and in 2023, only 21.5 percent of applicants were expected to have a higher education, according to Profession.hu. The...
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K&H: young workers feel safe
The majority of young workers still consider their jobs to be sufficiently stable: according to the latest results of the K&H Youth Index, at the end of 2024, their proportion...
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Flexible working conditions and a starting salary of 600-800 thousand forints are the expectations of young graduates
The most important demands of recent graduates from employers are flexibility and freedom, followed by salary: energy specialists ask for a starting salary of around 550-600 thousand forints, and IT...
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Employment continued to decline
In December, the monthly unemployment rate reported by the Central Statistical Office was 4.3%, which is below our expected 4.6% and the Bloomberg consensus. In November, we saw a rate...
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More than two thousand people applied for the worker’s loan in one month
The worker’s loan is becoming increasingly popular: in the almost one month since its introduction, more than two thousand people have applied for it, and in several hundred cases the...
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Student Work Trends 2025: What Salaries Can Working Students Expect?
This year’s minimum wage increase also has a significant impact on student wages, while tax breaks for young people and the increasingly widespread home office option in internships further increase...
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Half of Hungarians don’t like their jobs
Half of Hungarian employees would change jobs within two years, according to a survey by Erste. Many are not really satisfied with their jobs, and every second employee feels that...
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CEOs live their everyday lives in a state of redesign
The world’s CEOs are reimagining their daily lives: 63% have taken at least one major action in the past five years to transform the way their companies create value. Nearly...
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Are guest workers really taking away Hungarian jobs?
No, on the contrary: market experience shows that employing guest workers results in more investments and thus in more (and better) jobs for Hungarian workers! However, if administrative restrictions further...
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Trenkwalder: The average hourly wage of manual workers will exceed 2,100 forints by the end of 2024
The average gross hourly wage of skilled and trained workers performing manual labor was HUF 2,130 by the end of the fourth quarter of 2024, a 9.1 percent increase compared...
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2025: top 10 trends in the world of work
As technology continues to shape the way businesses of all sizes operate and grow, 2025 will be another defining year for the world of work. While the return to the...
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Quarterly labor market analysis: wage increases are the most likely to mobilize employees
The lively employment activity experienced since the beginning of 2023 subsided in the last quarter of 2024, with an increase of less than 5% in the number of applications submitted...
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The Trade Union of Commercial Employees has received support to increase its membership
The Trade Union of Commercial Employees (KASZ) has won a non-refundable European grant of 139 million forints. The aim of the project is for the union to expand the circle...
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More than 40% of those interested are not eligible for a Workers’ Loan!
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How much will the worker’s loan repayment be?
Already in the first days, there was significant interest in the bank’s worker’s loan. A worker’s loan with state support, previously unseen on the Hungarian market, is also available at...
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Sándor Czomba: The number of registered job seekers has not been this low since the change of regime
According to data from the National Employment Service, in December 2024, only 220.8 thousand people were registered as job seekers, which is a decrease of more than 4 thousand people...
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Can more than 125,000 people take out a workers’ loan?
The government is revealing more and more details about the workers’ loan. In addition to the conditions and regulations, today we also learned a few things about how much workers’...
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Portfolio.hu: A wage explosion is taking place in Hungary that has hardly any precedent in the EU
According to a recent Eurostat survey, wages in Hungary increased by the third highest rate in the European Union (EU) in the third quarter of 2024 compared to the same...
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