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Results 9th PIE Readers’ Survey
6. How do you see the number of employees at your company developing in the first half of 2023, compared to the second half of 2022?
(Sums not equal to 100% are based on rounding differences16 of the 296 responses are without information on the region in the data set and are missing in the chart)
Balance of “Increasing” and “Decreasing”
Data table
| Increasing | Staying the same | Decreasing | |
| Total | 65 (22,0 %) | 192 (64,9 %) | 39 (13,2 %) |
| Benelux | 9 (34,6 %) | 14 (53,8 %) | 3 (11,5 %) |
| Central & Eastern Europe | 5 (15,2 %) | 25 (75,8 %) | 3 (9,1 %) |
| France | 5 (26,3 %) | 14 (73,7 %) | 0 (0,0 %) |
| German-speaking Europe | 5 (25,0 %) | 10 (50,0 %) | 5 (25,0 %) |
| Italy | 2 (6,7 %) | 25 (83,3 %) | 3 (10,0 %) |
| Nordic region | 6 (12,2 %) | 35 (71,4 %) | 8 (16,3 %) |
| Southeastern Europe | 5 (23,8 %) | 13 (61,9 %) | 3 (14,3 %) |
| Spain & Portugal | 9 (32,1 %) | 17 (60,7 %) | 2 (7,1 %) |
| UK & Ireland | 7 (22,6 %) | 19 (61,3 %) | 5 (16,1 %) |
| Other | 9 (39,1 %) | 9 (39,1 %) | 5 (21,7 %) |
6. How do you see the number of employees at your company developing in the first half of 2023, compared to the second half of 2022?
(Sums not equal to 100% are based on rounding differences7 of the 296 responses are without information on the industry sector in the data set and are missing in the chart)
Balance of “Increasing” and “Decreasing”
Data table
| Increasing | Staying the same | Decreasing | |
| Total | 65 (22,0 %) | 192 (64,9 %) | 39 (13,2 %) |
| Plastics/chemicals production | 8 (17,4 %) | 27 (58,7 %) | 11 (23,9 %) |
| Raw materials distribution/trading/compounding | 6 (16,7 %) | 29 (80,6 %) | 1 (2,8 %) |
| Plastics machinery/equipment/tools | 2 (50,0 %) | 2 (50,0 %) | 0 (0,0 %) |
| Plastics processing | 21 (20,2 %) | 67 (64,4 %) | 16 (15,4 %) |
| Plastic products trade | 5 (17,2 %) | 20 (69,0 %) | 4 (13,8 %) |
| Plastics recycling/recovery | 3 (20,0 %) | 11 (73,3 %) | 1 (6,7 %) |
| Brand owner | 5 (33,3 %) | 8 (53,3 %) | 2 (13,3 %) |
| Other sector | 12 (30,0 %) | 27 (67,5 %) | 1 (2,5 %) |
6. How do you see the number of employees at your company developing in the first half of 2023, compared to the second half of 2022?
(Sums not equal to 100% are based on rounding differences1 of the 296 responses are without information on the number of employees in the data set and are missing in the chart)
Balance of “Increasing” and “Decreasing”
Data table
| Increasing | Staying the same | Decreasing | |
| Total | 65 (22,0 %) | 192 (64,9 %) | 39 (13,2 %) |
| <20 | 10 (26,3 %) | 27 (71,1 %) | 1 (2,6 %) |
| 21-100 | 16 (17,6 %) | 59 (64,8 %) | 16 (17,6 %) |
| 101-500 | 22 (26,5 %) | 52 (62,7 %) | 9 (10,8 %) |
| >500 | 16 (19,3 %) | 54 (65,1 %) | 13 (15,7 %) |
6. How do you see the number of employees at your company developing in the first half of 2023, compared to the second half of 2022?
(Sums not equal to 100% are based on rounding differences7 of the 296 responses are without information on the export quota in the data set and are missing in the chart)
Balance of “Increasing” and “Decreasing”
Data table
| Increasing | Staying the same | Decreasing | |
| Total | 65 (22,0 %) | 192 (64,9 %) | 39 (13,2 %) |
| <25% | 20 (18,7 %) | 75 (70,1 %) | 12 (11,2 %) |
| 25-50% | 19 (32,2 %) | 34 (57,6 %) | 6 (10,2 %) |
| >50-75% | 9 (15,8 %) | 40 (70,2 %) | 8 (14,0 %) |
| >75% | 16 (24,2 %) | 38 (57,6 %) | 12 (18,2 %) |
6. How do you see the number of employees at your company developing in the first half of 2023, compared to the second half of 2022?
(Sums not equal to 100% are based on rounding differences1 of the 104 responses are without information on the region in the data set and are missing in the chart)
Balance of “Increasing” and “Decreasing”
Data table
| Increasing | Staying the same | Decreasing | |
| Total | 21 (20,2 %) | 67 (64,4 %) | 16 (15,4 %) |
| Benelux | 5 (50,0 %) | 3 (30,0 %) | 2 (20,0 %) |
| Central & Eastern Europe | 2 (14,3 %) | 12 (85,7 %) | 0 (0,0 %) |
| France | 2 (28,6 %) | 5 (71,4 %) | 0 (0,0 %) |
| German-speaking Europe | 0 (0,0 %) | 2 (66,7 %) | 1 (33,3 %) |
| Italy | 0 (0,0 %) | 12 (92,3 %) | 1 (7,7 %) |
| Nordic region | 2 (11,1 %) | 11 (61,1 %) | 5 (27,8 %) |
| Southeastern Europe | 4 (30,8 %) | 8 (61,5 %) | 1 (7,7 %) |
| Spain & Portugal | 4 (40,0 %) | 6 (60,0 %) | 0 (0,0 %) |
| UK & Ireland | 1 (9,1 %) | 6 (54,5 %) | 4 (36,4 %) |
| Other | 1 (25,0 %) | 1 (25,0 %) | 2 (50,0 %) |
6. How do you see the number of employees at your company developing in the first half of 2023, compared to the second half of 2022?
(Sums not equal to 100% are based on rounding differences)Balance of “Increasing” and “Decreasing”
Data table
| Increasing | Staying the same | Decreasing | |
| Total | 21 (20,2 %) | 67 (64,4 %) | 16 (15,4 %) |
| Packaging | 3 (12,5 %) | 18 (75,0 %) | 3 (12,5 %) |
| Automotive | 6 (21,4 %) | 20 (71,4 %) | 2 (7,1 %) |
| E&E | 1 (16,7 %) | 4 (66,7 %) | 1 (16,7 %) |
| Construction materials | 7 (31,8 %) | 10 (45,5 %) | 5 (22,7 %) |
| Consumer goods | 1 (7,1 %) | 9 (64,3 %) | 4 (28,6 %) |
| Medical | 1 (33,3 %) | 2 (66,7 %) | 0 (0,0 %) |
| Other sector | 2 (28,6 %) | 4 (57,1 %) | 1 (14,3 %) |
6. How do you see the number of employees at your company developing in the first half of 2023, compared to the second half of 2022?
(Sums not equal to 100% are based on rounding differences1 of the 104 responses are without information on the number of employees in the data set and are missing in the chart)
Balance of “Increasing” and “Decreasing”
Data table
| Increasing | Staying the same | Decreasing | |
| Total | 21 (20,2 %) | 67 (64,4 %) | 16 (15,4 %) |
| <20 | 1 (14,3 %) | 6 (85,7 %) | 0 (0,0 %) |
| 21-100 | 6 (18,8 %) | 19 (59,4 %) | 7 (21,9 %) |
| 101-500 | 9 (25,7 %) | 20 (57,1 %) | 6 (17,1 %) |
| >500 | 4 (13,8 %) | 22 (75,9 %) | 3 (10,3 %) |
6. How do you see the number of employees at your company developing in the first half of 2023, compared to the second half of 2022?
(Sums not equal to 100% are based on rounding differences5 of the 104 responses are without information on the export quota in the data set and are missing in the chart)
Balance of “Increasing” and “Decreasing”
Data table
| Increasing | Staying the same | Decreasing | |
| Total | 21 (20,2 %) | 67 (64,4 %) | 16 (15,4 %) |
| <25% | 6 (19,4 %) | 21 (67,7 %) | 4 (12,9 %) |
| 25-50% | 4 (22,2 %) | 11 (61,1 %) | 3 (16,7 %) |
| >50-75% | 5 (20,0 %) | 17 (68,0 %) | 3 (12,0 %) |
| >75% | 5 (20,0 %) | 15 (60,0 %) | 5 (20,0 %) |