One-fifth of Hungarian pensioners would take a job - survey

One-fifth of Hungarian pensioners, about half a million people, would be willing to take a job, a survey carried out by the economic research institute GKI in June 2018 shows. GKI conducted the survey to assess how recent government measures to encourage pensioners to return to the labour market could help alleviate the labour shortage in Hungary. There are about 2.5 million pensioners in Hungary of which about 2 million are on old age pension, and they could theoretically provide an addition of hundreds of thousands to the labour force, GKI estimated, especially if the employers offered flexible working conditions. More than half of those willing to work would take a part-time job, one quarter would work flexible hours, 10 percent would telework and only 10 percent would take a full-time job, GKI found.