“Today it is important, on the one hand, to keep the business, on the other – earnings people. The number of applicants have already increased 3 times, and the number of jobs decreased by more than 2 times. If the situation with the quarantine will last until the end of June, then we can get to 20 million unemployed,” – said the founder of the service job SuperJob Alexei Zakharov.
According to the head of the portal “Business.ru” Sergey Kravchenko, to create your service at the crisis staff exchange his team decided after conducting a survey among entrepreneurs. “We found that 44% of executives would like to temporarily employ its employees, while 25% are willing to take people to their work. So, we’ve got a site on the portal, which we called SOS, which means the exchange service employees,” he explained. The service is designed to responsible employers who because of the crisis are forced to reduce personnel costs. According to Kravchenko, any transfer, even temporary, is possible only with the consent of the workers themselves.
“Any initiative capable of at least partially defuse the situation on the labour market, today, deserves attention, – said President of the chamber of Commerce and industry Sergei Katyrin. – As far as the electronic platform for the temporary exchange of personnel will be effective will soon see. But the initiative seems to me worthy of attention. Not all, but I think that many entrepreneurs will try to take advantage of this opportunity to temporarily employ their workers to keep their salaries”.
