Companies optimistic in hiring plans

TALLINN - The second-quarter overview compiled by the Estonian Institute of Economic Research demonstrates that, generally, enterprises are planning to hire more employees in all sectors in the next three months, reports Postimees Online. Restaurants were the most optimistic in June in terms of hiring.
Fifty-two percent of companies estimated that they would have to hire more employees, while none of the enterprises predicted a decline in the number of their staff.

In the construction sector, 34 percent of respondents estimated that in the next three months the number of employees in their companies would increase. Only 1 percent thought the opposite would happen.
In the software sector, 31 percent of companies planned to increase their staff while 2 percent were planning to decrease their number of employees.

In the advertising sector, 17 percent of companies were estimating that they would increase the number of employees in the next quarter; none were planning to reduce the number of staff. An increase in the number of workers was also foreseen in the manufacturing sector, in trade and in the tourism sector.