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Results 9th PIE Readers’ Survey
5. How did the number of employees at your company develop in the second half of 2022, compared to the first half of 2022?
(Sums not equal to 100% are based on rounding differences14 of the 294 responses are without information on the region in the data set and are missing in the chart)
Balance of “Increased” and “Decreased”
Data table
| Increased | Stayed the same | Decreased | |
| Total | 65 (22,1 %) | 170 (57,8 %) | 59 (20,1 %) |
| Benelux | 6 (23,1 %) | 16 (61,5 %) | 4 (15,4 %) |
| Central & Eastern Europe | 7 (21,2 %) | 23 (69,7 %) | 3 (9,1 %) |
| France | 7 (36,8 %) | 11 (57,9 %) | 1 (5,3 %) |
| German-speaking Europe | 5 (25,0 %) | 12 (60,0 %) | 3 (15,0 %) |
| Italy | 7 (23,3 %) | 16 (53,3 %) | 7 (23,3 %) |
| Nordic region | 10 (20,4 %) | 24 (49,0 %) | 15 (30,6 %) |
| Southeastern Europe | 6 (28,6 %) | 10 (47,6 %) | 5 (23,8 %) |
| Spain & Portugal | 5 (17,9 %) | 17 (60,7 %) | 6 (21,4 %) |
| UK & Ireland | 5 (16,1 %) | 17 (54,8 %) | 9 (29,0 %) |
| Other | 6 (26,1 %) | 13 (56,5 %) | 4 (17,4 %) |
5. How did the number of employees at your company develop in the second half of 2022, compared to the first half of 2022?
(Sums not equal to 100% are based on rounding differences7 of the 294 responses are without information on the industry sector in the data set and are missing in the chart)
Balance of “Increased” and “Decreased”
Data table
| Increased | Stayed the same | Decreased | |
| Total | 65 (22,1 %) | 170 (57,8 %) | 59 (20,1 %) |
| Plastics/chemicals production | 6 (13,3 %) | 31 (68,9 %) | 8 (17,8 %) |
| Raw materials distribution/trading/compounding | 9 (25,0 %) | 20 (55,6 %) | 7 (19,4 %) |
| Plastics machinery/equipment/tools | 2 (50,0 %) | 1 (25,0 %) | 1 (25,0 %) |
| Plastics processing | 21 (20,4 %) | 58 (56,3 %) | 24 (23,3 %) |
| Plastic products trade | 5 (17,2 %) | 18 (62,1 %) | 6 (20,7 %) |
| Plastics recycling/recovery | 4 (26,7 %) | 8 (53,3 %) | 3 (20,0 %) |
| Brand owner | 4 (26,7 %) | 7 (46,7 %) | 4 (26,7 %) |
| Other sector | 10 (25,0 %) | 24 (60,0 %) | 6 (15,0 %) |
5. How did the number of employees at your company develop in the second half of 2022, compared to the first half of 2022?
(Sums not equal to 100% are based on rounding differences1 of the 294 responses are without information on the number of employees in the data set and are missing in the chart)
Balance of “Increased” and “Decreased”
Data table
| Increased | Stayed the same | Decreased | |
| Total | 65 (22,1 %) | 170 (57,8 %) | 59 (20,1 %) |
| <20 | 5 (13,2 %) | 26 (68,4 %) | 7 (18,4 %) |
| 21-100 | 18 (20,0 %) | 56 (62,2 %) | 16 (17,8 %) |
| 101-500 | 24 (28,9 %) | 40 (48,2 %) | 19 (22,9 %) |
| >500 | 17 (20,7 %) | 48 (58,5 %) | 17 (20,7 %) |
5. How did the number of employees at your company develop in the second half of 2022, compared to the first half of 2022?
(Sums not equal to 100% are based on rounding differences6 of the 294 responses are without information on the export quota in the data set and are missing in the chart)
Balance of “Increased” and “Decreased”
Data table
| Increased | Stayed the same | Decreased | |
| Total | 65 (22,1 %) | 170 (57,8 %) | 59 (20,1 %) |
| <25% | 22 (20,8 %) | 64 (60,4 %) | 20 (18,9 %) |
| 25-50% | 16 (27,1 %) | 36 (61,0 %) | 7 (11,9 %) |
| >50-75% | 11 (19,3 %) | 35 (61,4 %) | 11 (19,3 %) |
| >75% | 15 (22,7 %) | 33 (50,0 %) | 18 (27,3 %) |
5. How did the number of employees at your company develop in the second half of 2022, compared to the first half of 2022?
(Sums not equal to 100% are based on rounding differences)Balance of “Increased” and “Decreased”
Data table
| Increased | Stayed the same | Decreased | |
| Total | 21 (20,4 %) | 58 (56,3 %) | 24 (23,3 %) |
| Benelux | 2 (20,0 %) | 6 (60,0 %) | 2 (20,0 %) |
| Central & Eastern Europe | 1 (7,1 %) | 11 (78,6 %) | 2 (14,3 %) |
| France | 2 (28,6 %) | 5 (71,4 %) | 0 (0,0 %) |
| German-speaking Europe | 0 (0,0 %) | 1 (33,3 %) | 2 (66,7 %) |
| Italy | 4 (30,8 %) | 5 (38,5 %) | 4 (30,8 %) |
| Nordic region | 5 (27,8 %) | 8 (44,4 %) | 5 (27,8 %) |
| Southeastern Europe | 4 (30,8 %) | 6 (46,2 %) | 3 (23,1 %) |
| Spain & Portugal | 1 (10,0 %) | 7 (70,0 %) | 2 (20,0 %) |
| UK & Ireland | 0 (0,0 %) | 7 (63,6 %) | 4 (36,4 %) |
| Other | 2 (50,0 %) | 2 (50,0 %) | 0 (0,0 %) |
5. How did the number of employees at your company develop in the second half of 2022, compared to the first half of 2022?
(Sums not equal to 100% are based on rounding differences)Balance of “Increased” and “Decreased”
Data table
| Increased | Stayed the same | Decreased | |
| Total | 21 (20,4 %) | 58 (56,3 %) | 24 (23,3 %) |
| Packaging | 4 (16,7 %) | 17 (70,8 %) | 3 (12,5 %) |
| Automotive | 6 (22,2 %) | 14 (51,9 %) | 7 (25,9 %) |
| E&E | 1 (16,7 %) | 2 (33,3 %) | 3 (50,0 %) |
| Construction materials | 7 (31,8 %) | 11 (50,0 %) | 4 (18,2 %) |
| Consumer goods | 1 (7,1 %) | 10 (71,4 %) | 3 (21,4 %) |
| Medical | 0 (0,0 %) | 1 (33,3 %) | 2 (66,7 %) |
| Other sector | 2 (28,6 %) | 3 (42,9 %) | 2 (28,6 %) |
5. How did the number of employees at your company develop in the second half of 2022, compared to the first half of 2022?
(Sums not equal to 100% are based on rounding differences1 of the 103 responses are without information on the number of employees in the data set and are missing in the chart)
Balance of “Increased” and “Decreased”
Data table
| Increased | Stayed the same | Decreased | |
| Total | 21 (20,4 %) | 58 (56,3 %) | 24 (23,3 %) |
| <20 | 0 (0,0 %) | 6 (85,7 %) | 1 (14,3 %) |
| 21-100 | 5 (15,6 %) | 22 (68,8 %) | 5 (15,6 %) |
| 101-500 | 7 (20,0 %) | 17 (48,6 %) | 11 (31,4 %) |
| >500 | 8 (28,6 %) | 13 (46,4 %) | 7 (25,0 %) |
5. How did the number of employees at your company develop in the second half of 2022, compared to the first half of 2022?
(Sums not equal to 100% are based on rounding differences4 of the 103 responses are without information on the export quota in the data set and are missing in the chart)
Balance of “Increased” and “Decreased”
Data table
| Increased | Stayed the same | Decreased | |
| Total | 21 (20,4 %) | 58 (56,3 %) | 24 (23,3 %) |
| <25% | 8 (25,8 %) | 18 (58,1 %) | 5 (16,1 %) |
| 25-50% | 3 (16,7 %) | 12 (66,7 %) | 3 (16,7 %) |
| >50-75% | 6 (24,0 %) | 14 (56,0 %) | 5 (20,0 %) |
| >75% | 3 (12,0 %) | 13 (52,0 %) | 9 (36,0 %) |