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Foundry in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (2017): More and more medium-sized companies want to hire more employees again
Photo: Jens Büttner / dpa
Companies in Germany want to hire more employees again than they did before the crisis.
More than a quarter of medium-sized companies in Germany are planning with more employees - around ten percentage points more than in autumn 2020.
This was the result of a representative survey by DZ Bank and the Federal Association of German Volksbanks, which the "Handelsblatt" reported on Monday.
In individual sectors, such as the electrical industry, as many as 44 percent of companies want to increase their workforce, in the chemical and plastics industries the figure is around a third.
This means that more and more medium-sized companies are preparing for the »post-corona boom«, according to the survey of around 1,000 medium-sized companies.
Medium-sized companies struggle with procurement bottlenecks
The purchase of preliminary products and raw materials is an ever greater problem for medium-sized companies.
60 percent of the managing directors surveyed said that the worries on the procurement side had never been as great as they are now.
The reason for this are disruptions in the supply chains.
These were and are not only interrupted as a result of the pandemic, but also by other events such as the Suez Canal accident or the snowstorms in Texas at the beginning of the year.
The latter led, among other things, to serious bottlenecks in the plastics industry at times.
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