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"Where have the people gone?" Companies complain about a shortage of skilled workers

2022-05-31T03:44:07.084Z


"Where have the people gone?" Companies complain about a shortage of skilled workers Created: 05/31/2022 05:33 By: Bert Brosch The IHK regional committee, which is now meeting, is struggling to find solutions to the shortage of skilled workers. © Bert Brosch The biggest problem for companies in the district of Munich? These are not inflation, energy prices or material shortages. It's the lack


"Where have the people gone?" Companies complain about a shortage of skilled workers

Created: 05/31/2022 05:33

By: Bert Brosch

The IHK regional committee, which is now meeting, is struggling to find solutions to the shortage of skilled workers.

© Bert Brosch

The biggest problem for companies in the district of Munich?

These are not inflation, energy prices or material shortages.

It's the lack of staff.

This became clear at the IHK regional committee.

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– The main problem for companies in the district of Munich is not inflation, energy prices or material shortages, no, it is the lack of staff.

"We have the greatest companies with the best ideas in the district - but what use are they to us if we have no people, no trainees, no specialists?", the IHK regional chairman Christoph Höhler summed up the misery at the IHK regional committee.

At the beginning of the year, the IHK carried out an economic survey among its members in the district.

According to department head Elfriede Kerschl, 39 percent see domestic demand and 59 percent the rising energy and raw material prices as the main problem.

However, the greatest difficulty for 64 percent is the shortage of skilled workers.

The construction industry is hardest hit here at 86 percent, followed by tourism, retail, industry and wholesale.

People without vocational training (tourism 70 percent), specialists (construction and trade 50 percent) or university graduates (information technology 80 percent) are also desperately needed.

"The shortage has been there for years."

"All sectors want to train significantly more than before," said Kerschl.

The problem, however, is that fewer and fewer students want an education and go to college instead.

"If you compare the numbers of school leavers and new pensioners, then by 2030 in Bavaria we will have a gap of 1.3 million workers and thus taxpayers," said Kerschl.

In Bavaria there would then be a shortage of 630,000 skilled workers.

"One solution is to attract skilled workers from abroad, to retain current employees and to hire more women with flexible working hours."

The shortage of skilled workers, for example for bus drivers or in the care sector, did not first arise due to the corona pandemic, explained Winfried Hüntelmann from the Munich employment agency: "Some have reoriented themselves, but the shortage has been there for years." One possibility, this shortage to remedy, training exchanges, qualifications and training must be caught up on and digitization for the younger generation must be promoted.

46 percent of those who register as unemployed have no training.

"We as an employment agency have moved away from job placement to employer advice, but not all companies come to us," said Hüntelmann.

Many companies, added IHK regional manager, Höhler, would indeed have problems getting advice from the employment office, they would have resentments.

Recruiting staff abroad is expensive

"Where have all the people gone?

We don't have any high or increased unemployment figures," asked Magnus Harlander, founder and chairman of Isar AG, a company for sustainable investments.

Meanwhile, Philipp Bryxi, authorized signatory at IABG in Ottobrunn, reported on the problems in recruiting staff abroad.

This ties up many resources for visas and forms.

In the end you don't know if the employee suits you.

"That's why we no longer bring skilled workers from abroad.

We need a platform that prepares this.” For Florian Schardt, Managing Director of “fme Unternehmensbeteiligungen”, working hours are a big problem.

“For many women and men, children, family and work are not compatible.

It's fatal when a group in a day-care center has to close due to a lack of staff.

More news from the district of Munich can be found here.

Source: merkur

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