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The situation on the labor market is described by economists as stable. The registered unemployment rate was 5 percent at the end of the year. This is the lowest result in over 30 years.
However, data from the Central Statistical Office on the consumer situation show that 22.07 percent Poles are afraid that the unemployment rate in Poland will increase slightly. This is the highest result since May 2023 and the third month in a row that the indicator has been increasing. What could this be due to?
Alarming signals can have a significant impact coming from employment offices and the general narrative in the media, as well as the opinions of some experts.
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Poles are afraid of unemployment. What it comes from?
Data from 12 voivodeship labor offices indicate that in In the first quarter of this year, over 90 enterprises reported their intention to carry out layoffs. The problem affects as many as approximately 8,000 employees.
Economic journalist Mikołaj Fidziński posted an entry on the X website in which he explains that which may be the reason for Poles’ fears of unemployment. He pointed to messages appearing in public space that may increase general anxiety in society.
We are still not talking about large, mass layoffs across the entire economy. Of course, this does not mean that the phenomenon should be downplayed: losing a job is often a human tragedy. Nevertheless, when it comes to group layoffs, we are talking about 30.6 thousand. employees declared in 2023. But if we compare these 8 thousand employees declared for group layoffs in the first quarter of this year. and less than 31 thousand in 2023 with the total number of people working in the Polish economy (over 17 million), it is clear that we are not talking about some catastrophic scale. 30.6 thousand employees reported for group layoffs in 2023 is also less than in 2019-2021
