Almost all CEOs concerned about labour shortage

The availability of key skills is a challenge according to 95 percent of CEOs in Hungary, consulting company PwC said on Thursday. Among challenges, changing workforce demographics was mentioned by 76 percent and higher employee benefits by 73 percent of CEOs, according to the PwC survey conducted late in 2017. "The percentage of CEOs saying they would like to increase their staff numbers has been over 50 percent for years now," said Anita Mekler, tax partner at PwC Hungary. Fully 89 percent of CEOs are confident that their company's revenue will grow in the next 12 months, 55 percent predicted the Hungarian economy will keep growing and 47 percent said that the global economy would expand.