“We've got an excellent increased demand than earlier than the pandemic” – Muricas News

Kocher: We additionally want a social dialogue with regards to part-time work. There are extra part-time ladies who don't have any childcare obligations than these with childcare obligations. So it's their option to work part-time. However little one care is a superb necessity and I'll do all the pieces to make sure that there actually is full parental alternative.

The difficulty of part-time work is definitely very acute. And now not only a ladies’s problem.

Kopf: Half-time work was initially a ladies’s coverage problem, then it grew to become a socio-political problem in relation to pensions and feminine poverty – and now it's abruptly an financial problem. Nevertheless, we might now have sufficient arguments that part-time work and childcare are lastly going additional. And I additionally see it as an thrilling phenomenon that younger persons are searching for part-time jobs. Nevertheless, it's a luxurious downside and its significance is overestimated. Most can not and don't need to afford it.

What different measures do you see?

Kocher: Extra qualifications for many who have accomplished obligatory education and to maintain older individuals in good well being for longer. Austrians of their late 50s really feel previous and now not match. That should change.

Do you see a necessity for change in educating?

Kocher: We’re making an attempt to modernize it. One undertaking is the twin academy, i.e. the apprenticeship after commencement. Unemployment amongst AMS graduates is the second highest after these with solely obligatory schooling. However, we would like increased skilled schooling. The thought is to allow extra qualifications within the skilled subject as properly. Educating ought to grow to be extra enticing. By the way, 40 p.c of a yr’s college students go on an apprenticeship, and this determine has been steady for 15 years.

What are you able to do on the company facet?

Kopf: Qualify increased throughout the firm, search for options with the AMS, as a result of we nonetheless have 300,000 individuals to put. It's important to develop collectively. The labor market is a market, uncommon, however with provide and demand. And now the candidates determine the place they need to go. The businesses have to bounce and take into consideration one thing. Present they're higher than others to draw staff.

In an effort to be enticing, the subject of which means has additionally grow to be essential for candidates.

Kopf: Folks search which means of their work. As a result of division of labor, the which means is now not recognizable for a lot of. That has to alter once more. We on the AMS or the Pink Cross should not have any worker issues. As a result of with us the which means of the work is clearly legible.

I used to ask the place you see the subject in 5 years. At this time I hardly dare to ask subsequent yr…

Kopf: If the fuel retains flowing – if not, we’ll talk about one thing utterly completely different – tourism has calmed down a bit, we’re higher at childcare and we’re joyful about an unemployment charge that begins at three.

Kocher: The scenario with regard to shortage will ease as a result of the economic system will now not be as sturdy. The primary quarter of 2022 had progress of two.5 p.c, which might imply progress of 9 p.c per yr. That is an unimaginable dynamic that won't proceed like this.