The labor market is performing well despite slowing growth. According to the latest Manpower World Barometer broadcast on the parisianthe hiring intentions of French companies progress in the fourth quarter of 2022. The study highlights the forecast of net employment that results from the subtraction between the percentage of employers who foresee an increase in their workforce and the proportion of those who foresee the opposite .
In France, this indicator thus reached +34% in the last three months of the year, that is, five points more than in the third quarter. On the other hand, it loses one point compared to last year in the same period.
Digital, finance and hospitality are hiring
Les secteurs du numérique, de la communication et des médias, but also finance, bank, insurance and immobilier, as well as those of the hotel-restoration tirent plus the intentions d’embauche vers le haut pour cette end of the year. In these areas of activity, the net employment forecast reaches +49%, +44% and +39% respectively. In the manufacturing sector, the indicator, at +30%, however, lost 20 points in one year.
Companies with 10 to 49 employees show the strongest hiring intentions at +38%, just ahead of those with more than 250 employees (+32%). For companies with less than 10 employees, the net employment forecast gains 18 points in one year, but loses 16 compared to the previous quarter.
Strong dynamism in the Center-East
If we look at regions, the Center-East concentrates most of the hiring intentions, with a net employment forecast of +40%. This indicator reached +34% in Ile-de-France, 8 points less than in the third quarter. The North region registered the lowest net employment forecast with +25% in hiring intentions.
On a European scale, France and Sweden are the countries where companies expect more hiring in the last quarter. It is closely followed by Norway and Belgium, all of them with +33%, and Portugal, with +31%. In Hungary and Greece, the net employment forecast is negative and reaches -5% and -3% respectively.
Source: BFM TV
