Job mobility tendencies revealed | Australian Dealer Information

Australia’s job mobility fee has decreased for the primary time in three years, returning to pre-pandemic ranges, based on new information from ABS.

“Within the 12 months to February 2024, round 8% of employed folks, or 1.1 million folks, modified their employer or enterprise,” mentioned Bjorn Jarvis (pictured above), ABS head of labour statistics. “This was down 1.5 proportion factors from 9.6% in February 2023.”

Gender and age disparities

Job mobility charges fell for each women and men, with a extra vital decline for males.

Girls’s job mobility was barely increased at 8.2% in comparison with 7.9% for males. Youthful staff stay extra cell, with 12.6% of 15 to 24-year-olds altering jobs. Nonetheless, that is decrease than the 15.9% seen in 2022.

Business-specific tendencies

Job mobility charges declined throughout all industries aside from data media and telecommunications (+1.8 proportion factors) and different providers (+0.1 proportion factors).

The biggest drops have been in arts and recreation providers (-5.4 proportion factors) and transport, postal, and warehousing (-4.5 proportion factors).

“Gross sales staff nonetheless had the very best mobility fee, with 9.7% altering jobs,” Jarvis mentioned.

Potential workforce enhance

In February 2024, there have been 1.9 million potential staff, up from 1.8 million in February 2023. Of those, 555,000 have been unemployed, and 1.3 million weren’t within the labour drive however needed to work.

“Of the individuals who needed to work, simply over 1 million folks have been accessible to begin work immediately,” Jarvis mentioned.

Challenges in job searching for

Round 82% of unemployed folks reported difficulties discovering work, much like February 2023. The primary points have been too many candidates (12.7%), inadequate work expertise (10.8%), and sick well being or incapacity (10.7%).

“Extra folks reported difficulties associated to labour market situations in February 2024, in contrast with February 2023, when the labour market was notably tight,” Jarvis mentioned.

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