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REPORTS
say unemployment has increased, but the top 5,000
corporations are complaining they cannot get decent
help, as may be gleaned from the latest survey by the
Department of Labor and Employment.
This is
because the reports of unemployment are not detailed or
explained—many are not qualified, many do not match the
skills needed, many could not communicate well, etc.
The
corporations also said there is an unacceptably high
turnover rate and tardiness as well as absenteeism.
Labor
Secretary Marianito Roque said the Bureau of Labor and
Employment Statistics Survey covered 5,000 corporations
from October to December last year.
The
firms rated problems as either “high priority” or “low
priority.” Most high-priority problems involved
recruitment due to a large shortage of qualified
applicants, with 39.3 percent of the total respondents
putting this in first place.
“This
was closely related to high labor-turnover rate which
ranked second with 30.5-percent response rate, and
pirating of workers which ranked 10th with 16.3-percent
response rate,” said Roque. “Many companies are
preoccupied with hiring the best and the brightest
people in the midst of talent shortage.”
Roque
said absenteeism and tardiness were the top concerns for
companies engaged in real estate and leasing, with a
high 44.1 percent of respondents ticking these; but were
the least of concerns for companies in utilities, with
only 8.3 percent saying it is a problem.
Theft,
fraud and willful break of trust was considered by 24.5
percent of the respondents as also a problem, placing
them in fourth rank. Roque said these concerns were the
highest in financial intermediation and lowest in hotels
and restaurants.
The
study noted that low productivity and lack of work
ethics were in the fifth and sixth positions with 21.3
percent and 20.5 percent, respectively.
The lack
of motivation or initiative, lack of skills and sexual
harassment was also mentioned as problems. The survey
did not go into the reasons but observers said these
problems could in part be put on the doorstep of
management.
Enterprises engaged in financial intermediation recorded
the highest number of firms concerned with lack of
motivation and sexual harassment.
“Concerns about lack of skills were posted highest in
hotels and restaurants (28.6 percent).
At the
bottom of the HR concerns were lack of company loyalty
and interpersonal problems at 12.8 percent and 6.5
percent, respectively,” said Roque. |
