386 thousand hires expected by companies in February: +68 thousand compared to a year ago (+21.5%). There are 178 thousand workers difficult to find (46.2%)

There are 386 thousand hires expected by companies in the month of February and 1.2 million for the February-April quarter, +68 thousand compared to February 2022 (+21.5%) and +175 thousand compared to the quarter (+17.1%). The positive dynamics of the demand for labour of companies in the first months of the year is also confirmed by the comparison with pre-Covid levels (February 2019), with a growth of 15.6%.
The mismatch between demand and supply of labor is increasing, covering 46.2% of the profiles sought, a value about 6 percentage points higher than a year ago.

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