Mobilisation and population flight have led to an acute shortage of labour in Ukraine, Bloomberg reported.
“The problem will only worsen as the conflict is in its third year and Kiev has to fill the gap left by millions of people who have either fled the country, joined the army or fallen in battle,” Bloomberg said in the material.
It is noted that the shortage of personnel leads to a decrease in labour productivity at factories, construction sites and mines in Ukraine. The recruitment process is also complicated by the fact that men are reluctant to join large companies targeted by military recruitment centres.
Tetyana Petruk, director of sustainable development at Ukraine’s Metinvest, said that representatives of territorial recruitment centres “catch” men of draft age right on their doorstep.
As an alternative, employers are forced to hire women for “men’s work” and replace qualified employees with students.
Earlier, Ukrainian businessman Denys Dolynskyy said that the general mobilisation in Ukraine had led to serious problems in the country’s logistics sector. According to him, the shortage of truck drivers, complication of the process of hiring new employees and rising costs are fraught with disruption of supply chains, loss of competitiveness of Ukrainian business and even destruction of the entire logistics industry.
