员工短缺比较

The table illustrates the proportion of employers across four economic sectors who struggled to recruit three types of workers in 2003 and 2004. Overall, skilled positions were the hardest to fill for employers in all sectors in both years, while recruitment of technical and managerial staff was the least problematic. While difficulties finding skilled and unskilled workers generally rose over the period, problems hiring technical and managerial employees declined across all sectors. In detail, manufacturing had the highest share of employers struggling to find skilled workers in 2004, at 51%, up from 45% a year earlier. By contrast, the proportion of commerce employers facing this problem fell from 47% to 41%, although commerce still had the highest rate of skilled worker recruitment difficulty in 2003. For unskilled roles, the services sector saw the largest increase in recruitment difficulty, rising from 20% to 29% in 2004, which was also the highest figure for unskilled worker recruitment that year. For technical and managerial positions, employers in building reported the most difficulty in both years, though this figure dropped from 14% to 10%, while no commerce employers struggled to fill such roles in 2004.