The damage caused by the war reaches a large scale, it affected mainly the sphere of trade.
Business in Ukraine is going through hard times / Photo: Getty Images, Collage: Today
The total costs of small and medium-sized businesses, calculated by researchers, reach $85 billion (as of the end of March 2022), a third of their employees were fired, and another third were forced to go on vacation.
The Advanter Group informs about this in its study.
So, the owners of micro-businesses (where up to 10 people in the state) reduced their employees by almost half (42%), by 24% of small businesses and by 18% of medium-sized ones. Wage cuts have also become a mass phenomenon (affecting 42% of people who have kept their jobs).
At the same time, they completely stopped working. 21.6% of enterprises. More 34.3% – almost.
What specialists are lacking now?
Most often, after the start of the war, they are looking for drivers, masons (leading in salaries – 35 thousand UAH), as well as:
- loaders;
- guards;
- couriers;
- nannies;
- seamstresses.
Source: Segodnya
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