47% of enterprises complained about staff shortages – Kommersant

In January 2024, 47% of managers of industrial enterprises complained about a lack of qualified personnel, according to a survey by the Institute of Economic Policy. Gaidar, who leads RBC. This is a new record for labor shortages in industry since 1996.

In the Gaidar Institute survey, there are three possible answers to the question about the availability of the necessary personnel: “more than enough,” “enough,” and “not enough.” The first answer option was chosen by only 2% of companies, as follows from the results of a survey in which more than 1 thousand industrial enterprises took part.

The previous maximum shortage of personnel was recorded by the Gaidar Institute in July – then 45% of surveyed industrialists complained about the lack of qualified employees. According to surveys at the end of 2023, as a result, an increase in the salaries of existing and new employees was observed in 47% of enterprises.

According to the “Monitoring the State of Business in Russia”, at the end of 2023, 45% of Russian small and large companies named the main barrier to development as a shortage of personnel. Also among the reasons were the uncertainty of the economic situation (33%) and government policy in the economy (20%), high borrowing costs (32%) and insufficient domestic demand (28%).

Read more in the Kommersant article. “Entrepreneurs are getting closer to reality”.

Lusine Balasyan