Despite that the better part of Russia’s companies have no redundancy plans, the number of those referring to staff reduction has stepped up from 10 percent to 19 percent, showed the survey of SuperJob.ru held amid 3,000 representatives of Russia’s companies in October of 2008.

The data of two surveys signaled that the plans of employers rapidly changed in the past weeks and the change was hardly in employees’ favor. In early October, for instance, 72 percent of employers claimed they had neither reduced

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nor planned to reduce personal, but no more than 58 percent of them are sure of it now. The number of companies that had avoided redundancy but would probably refer to it in the nearest future grew from 10 percent to 13 percent.

“The economic situation hasn’t improved in the past fortnight. Some companies have encountered problems because of it, of which they didn’t want even to think two weeks ago. They have to reduce personnel despite the efficient work of the latter,” commented SuperJob.ru President Alexei Zakharov.

“I think the figures are quite realistic,” HeadHunter Group President Yuri Virovets said.

“Really, around 20 percent of the companies have set to redundancy.” The employment experts are yet in no hurry to forecast the extent of the personnel reduction, saying it depends on how quickly the government will be able to improve the situation in economy.

“If the situation doesn’t deteriorate, the labor market will completely recover next year. And we will be again catastrophically short of engineers, computer experts, milling machine operators,” Zakharov concluded.

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