Trade Registry data thus show the number of employees went up by 8% from 2019, hitting a decade record high.
“The increase once again confirms constructions supported the economy during the 2020 pandemic year,” says Adriana Iftime, general manager of construction company federation FPSC.
2020 was the third year this indicator rose, after it had plunged from 354,000 to 341,000 in 2017.
Companies operating in the field of constructions, contributing 6.6% to GDP, were on a hiring spree in May 2019-May 2021, reveals a ZF analysis based on data from the National Statistics Institute. Over new 35,000 hirings were operated in the past two years, with the number of employees in this industry accounting for almost 9% in Romania’s workforce.
Constructions were the star of the economy in 2020, when most industries declines, and is rising further in 2021. Thus, in the first six months of 2021 the industry posted 6% growth year-on-year.
(English version by Catalina Apostoiu)