A recent report from ManPowerGroup details that the net employment trend in Peru fell to 19%, 4% less than in the previous quarter and 6% in interannual terms.
This component measures whether a company is interested in increasing its staff, reducing it, or whether it will not make changes. Thus, a drop of 5 percentage points is observed in the item of hiring workers (from 46% to 41%).
Meanwhile, 22% plan to reduce it and 31% will not make changes. 6% do not know.
After the contraction registered in the pandemic, in 2022, The general employment indicator rebounded to a peak of 50%, and since then, it has fallen with the normalization of business activities without the health emergency.
Despite the fall, Daniel Galdós, commercial manager of ManpowerGroup Perú, explains that the areas with the best performance are information technology and finance and real estate, both with 46%. They are followed by life sciences and health, and manufacturing and industry (41% and 32%, respectively).
By regions, Cusco (-25%) and Piura (-14%) are the ones that have the worst performance due to the protests in the Imperial City due to the rejection of the sale of virtual tickets for Machu Picchu and, in the north, due to climatic anomalies .
Source: Larepublica
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