On the other hand, National Statistics Institute data show a steady rise in the total number of salaried employees in Romania’s economy in 2015, with more than 154,000 new jobs created in the first eight months of the year alone.
“A factor that influenced the decline in the number of temporary employees is a current problem of the labor market in Romania. The recruitment base shrank significantly and Adecco is currently hiring about 350 people or some 80% of total requests,” explained Florin Godean, country manager of recruitment firm Adecco.
Valentin Petrof, country manager of recruitment firm ManpowerGroup Romania, says the history of the labor market in the country shows such quarterly fluctuations are not uncommon.
“Some of the temporary workers in Romania are people who come back home for specific periods of time, usually during the off-season and some of the temporary workers move to the permanent teams of companies (the so-called temp-to-perm), but we don’t have the figures to allow us to determine the impact of such factors.”
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)