03 — QUALIFIED TALENT, BUT SCARCE

DEMAND ONCE AGAIN OUTSTRIPS SUPPLY OF QUALIFIED PROFESSIONALS

60.3% of companies plan to expand the team in the coming months, but up to three quarters of companies are having difficulty finding workers. The education system does not have the capacity to train the professionals needed by the market.

Fostering the digital transformation is the public policy that sector firms perceive as having the most impact: 47.1% said it greatly affects their growth and business competitiveness. Talent generation and attraction, a major concern in previous editions of the Barometer, fell this year to become the problem with the lowest impact.

Despite not considering the lack of talent a problem, 80.8% of the companies said they could post higher turnover if the shortfall of qualified professionals was solved.

We run the risk of not effectively shifting these funds to the industrial and institutional sector. 47.2% of the companies said they disagreed that these funds were a positive lever to boost business. EU funding received an average score of 4.3 out of 10.