The private sector plans to create 83,600 jobs in the second quarter of this year, a survey by the Council of Labor Affairs showed yesterday.
In its quarterly labor demand forecast survey, the council asked 3,015 businesses with 30 or more employees about their recruitment or layoff plans to be implemented by the end of next month.
While more than half of the businesses said they did not plan to adjust their workforce, about 35 percent said they had plans to increase staff numbers, said Cheng Wen-yuan (鄭文淵), director of the council’s statistics department.
Three percent of businesses surveyed said they planned to downsize their workforce, while the rest said they were unable to make predictions at the time of the poll in January.
Based on the results, an aggregate of 94,700 workers are expected to be hired by the end of next month, while 11,100 could be laid off, resulting in a net increase of 83,600 jobs, Cheng said.
Employers looking to hire workers mostly cited reasons such as “increased demand” (36 percent), “expansion of the company’s equipment and departments” (26 percent) and “replacement of former employees” (25 percent), the survey showed.
The manufacturing sector was the biggest contributor, with 49,700 new jobs, followed by the wholesale and retail sector (12,600) and corporate support services (6,200).
The type of workers most in demand were equipment operators and assembly line workers (30,000), followed by technicians and assistant staff (19,800), specialists (11,400), service and sales staff (10,100) and clerical support (7,000).
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