I suggest Greek HR’s to try an internship in Czechia with 3.5% unemploynment and see what “problem with hiring people” truly means.
Quite remarkable, Greece has managed to slash its unemployment from 16.5% a year prior despite the pandemic (and noting it was as high as 28% in 2013). It’s almost unthinkable that Greek firms are now experiencing a labour shortage of sorts, albeit due to a lack of investment in upskilling the local workforce in the trades which are now desperately needed and which may have otherwise been fulfilled by imported labour pre pandemic
They also underpay and provide horrible work-life balance. Unpaid overtime is basically a given, and random “emergency calls” out of work hours are constant.
Very good. Greece bouncing back. That whole economic crisis is going to be a thing of the past much sooner than naysayers said. Give it 10 years and that crisis will be nothing but a footnote in the annual budget.
Have they tried paying more and offering better working hours?
As mentioned in the article, this is for skilled workers. Those companies were offering slave wages and now they upgraded to serf wages. No wonder they cannot find anyone.
PS. I live in Greece but work remotely for foreign companies, I would love to find a job here but they pay half as much.
Greek here. In my experience, most companies demand insane qualifications for a job and offer shit money for it. 800-900 euro per month for someone with 4-5 years experience and an MSc is considered normal pay around here.
Also a very high number of Greeks have the diplomas needed for the jobs but not the work experience because you need 10 years of experience on data science to grab a job in the sector (true story i saw this in a job ad on linkedin). Brain drain is also a thing,which makes the work force either extremely qualified or under qualified.
Restore one of the famous cultural sites in Greece or Italy.
I like how the reduction of unemployment is framed as a trouble for companies.
And I guess the #1 is now Spain. Thanks Mr. Sánchez. The PSOE is really really unlucky, somehow they get to manage all the crisis and fuck them up. Poor guys!
Greece has an abundance of low paying jobs should be the title.
“have trouble hiring” or translated into simple English “Have trouble hiring for this amount of money”.
7,9 billion people on the planet,no such thing as “trouble hiring”.
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13.2% and they have troubles with hiring?
I suggest Greek HR’s to try an internship in Czechia with 3.5% unemploynment and see what “problem with hiring people” truly means.
Quite remarkable, Greece has managed to slash its unemployment from 16.5% a year prior despite the pandemic (and noting it was as high as 28% in 2013). It’s almost unthinkable that Greek firms are now experiencing a labour shortage of sorts, albeit due to a lack of investment in upskilling the local workforce in the trades which are now desperately needed and which may have otherwise been fulfilled by imported labour pre pandemic
They also underpay and provide horrible work-life balance. Unpaid overtime is basically a given, and random “emergency calls” out of work hours are constant.
Very good. Greece bouncing back. That whole economic crisis is going to be a thing of the past much sooner than naysayers said. Give it 10 years and that crisis will be nothing but a footnote in the annual budget.
Have they tried paying more and offering better working hours?
As mentioned in the article, this is for skilled workers. Those companies were offering slave wages and now they upgraded to serf wages. No wonder they cannot find anyone.
PS. I live in Greece but work remotely for foreign companies, I would love to find a job here but they pay half as much.
Greek here. In my experience, most companies demand insane qualifications for a job and offer shit money for it. 800-900 euro per month for someone with 4-5 years experience and an MSc is considered normal pay around here.
Also a very high number of Greeks have the diplomas needed for the jobs but not the work experience because you need 10 years of experience on data science to grab a job in the sector (true story i saw this in a job ad on linkedin). Brain drain is also a thing,which makes the work force either extremely qualified or under qualified.
Restore one of the famous cultural sites in Greece or Italy.
I like how the reduction of unemployment is framed as a trouble for companies.
And I guess the #1 is now Spain. Thanks Mr. Sánchez. The PSOE is really really unlucky, somehow they get to manage all the crisis and fuck them up. Poor guys!
Greece has an abundance of low paying jobs should be the title.
“have trouble hiring” or translated into simple English “Have trouble hiring for this amount of money”.
7,9 billion people on the planet,no such thing as “trouble hiring”.
What’s the pay?