The labor market has lost more than 2 million people: what business has suffered from the mobilization of workers in the Armed Forces

The labor force in the country has not enough for the last 10 years, and the war has only intensified negative trends, according to the interviewed focus experts on employment. The number of vacancies in the Ukrainian labor market at the beginning of the Russian invasion decreased more than 10 times. Competition among one vacancy has increased 7 times, is evidenced by the statistics of the site to find work work. ua.

The situation is not for the better: the vast majority of employers in 2023 faced the lack of staff through mobilization, as well as traveling abroad of women and men. Affects the market and the demographic crisis. The Confederation of Employers of Ukraine provides statistics of changes in the labor market for 2022 and 10 months of 2023.

The companies lost more than 781 thousand men: some were released, others mobilized, and others left or transferred to unofficial work, says Focus President of the Confederation of Employers of Ukraine Oleksiy Miroshnichenko. Women have left the labor market almost twice as many men - up to 1. 5 million. Most of them left with the children or lost their work after active fighting. The Ukrainian labor market has decreased by 2. 23 million. "Before the start of the official taxpayers, there were 12.

3 million, now - just more than 10 million. If we look at statistics, we will see that women will not block labor deficiency. - emphasizes Miroshnichenko. Ukrainian economists are convinced that in 2024 a strong shortage of skilled personnel will feel the frontal areas. Army needs will continue to be closed by the mobilization of civil sector workers. Traditionally, in Ukraine, the main labor was still men. During the war, the situation changed: some of them serve in the army, others left.

The discussed new mobilization bill has led to the fact that men began to avoid official employment so as not to get under the call, says the director of the consulting company "Mikhailov and partners" Vitaliy Mikhailov. The vacancies that men mostly worked are difficult to fill women. Hard work in production, truck drivers - such work requires physical strength. Mikhailov emphasizes that about 80,000 vacancies are available on job search sites.

The top 5 of the most sought after work in Ukraine looks like this: all the above industries need men, women do not solve the problem, Vitaliy Mikhailov adds. According to experts, companies that have closed at the beginning of the Great War with the Russian Federation have never opened. Those who survive and adapt to wartime remained. The Ukrainian market reacts there with wages raising, the average size of which is approaching 20 thousand hryvnias.

It cannot be said that Ukrainian business is closing. The volume of production decreases, the state is reduced, but it is not necessary to talk about the disaster, emphasizes Alexei Miroshnichenko. "The scale of production and activity decreases, production and companies move to other regions. The working day is eight hours, its continuation is prohibited by law. And the physical capacity of a person is limited, " - comments the focus a specialist.

A sensitive blow to the war felt a business in the field of IT. After the beginning, he plunged into a crisis, the fall of the sector is estimated at 70%, says Escadra Recruitment AGENCY LTD CEO. It is forced to say that the IT market dies. The reason is that 95% of companies worked on outsourcing. In the war, grocery campaigns in the West are afraid to enter into contracts with Ukrainian specialists, "-explains the recruiter. Companies are released or transferred to partial employment.

Some IT professionals themselves are looking for contracts abroad or sitting out of work. The conditions for themselves, now everything has changed. A similar situation with tops, stated Gorokhovsky. Analysts indicate that acute shortage of personnel is felt in the medical industry, especially lacking in narrow -profile doctors. Many have left Kherson, Zaporozhye, partially Sumy and Kharkiv. Also there is little left.

The National Bank of Ukraine does not lose optimism: government officials expect to restore the labor market and increase salaries in 2024. Because of the departure of Ukrainians abroad and mobilization of men, business is often unable to find the right specialists. Rozhkova. Focus earlier wrote that Ukrainian business is actively looking for workers in a full -scale war, the number of vacancies in the labor market is increasing.