Hiring increases 40% in Brazil

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – A new study conducted by the social business network LinkedIn revealed the expectation of business owners for the improvement of the labor market with the end of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The survey showed that hiring in the country at the beginning of this year is 40.6% higher than in December 2019, months before the start of the health crisis, when the issue was not yet on the agenda in Brazil.

Released on Thursday, March 10, the report considered the database of 53 million active Brazilian users on the Linkedin platform.

The social network, which receives and publishes several job ads, registered a significant increase in new opportunities since the beginning of 2022, which according to the platform, is due to the optimism of entrepreneurs in this economic recovery.

Data compiled by the National Council of Health Secretaries (Conass) show that the country follows in a deceleration of contaminations and deaths by Covid-19 and that, according to the infectologist of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), Julio Croda, interviewed by CNN, Brazil is already moving towards the end of the pandemic.

“In certain regions of Brazil, we can see a drop in the contamination rate after Omicron and high vaccination coverage. It allows us to affirm that the impact on the health system will be smaller and smaller, and we can flex with more tranquility and less impact. But it is worth pointing out that the end of the pandemic needs to be regionalized, even because Brazilian states are more advanced than others,” said Croda.

This tendency collaborates so that employers continue to search for new employees, taking over teams reduced during the peak of the crisis.

The study also revealed that the search for new employees is not only restricted to Brazil, which is at the top of the list of nations hiring in 2022 but is joined by the United Arab Emirates and Mexico.

Many countries in Europe are also following the movement, according to Linkedin, but more slowly than Brazil.

With information from CNN Brasil