The demand for labour in the fourth quarter of 2023
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In Poland, at the end of the fourth quarter of 2023, there were 97.1 thousand job vacancies (12.7% fewer than at the end of the third quarter of 2023). The largest annual decrease in the number of job vacancies occurred in the Information and communication section. The job vacancy rate decreased by 0.14 percentage points (0.78%) compared with the fourth quarter of 2022.
At the end of the fourth quarter of 2023, job vacancies were available in 5.0% of the 610.9 thousand national economy entities[1]. There were 16.7% fewer of them than at the end of the third quarter of 2023 and 6.3% fewer than at the end of the fourth quarter of 2022.
There were 97.1 thousand job vacancies in Poland at the end of the fourth quarter of 2023. There were 14.1 thousand fewer of them than in the third quarter of 2023 and 18.6 thousand fewer than in the corresponding quarter of 2022. One in five job vacancies was a newly created job (18.1 thousand).
Employees were sought, among others, through labour offices, to which 12.4% of the total number of job vacancies were reported.
[1] Data concern entities of the national economy and their local units with 1 or more employees, conducting economic activity in the scope of PKD/NACE sections from A (excluding natural persons running individual agricultural holdings) to section S.
