Ukrainian companies desperately need workers. There just aren’t enough

With millions of Ukrainians out of the labor force due to migration, internal displacement, mobilization, and avoiding recruitment, Ukrainian businesses are forced to rethink their operations.

Hlib Vyshlinsky, executive director of CES said:

It is just daily a game of cat and mouse, where business owners want to maintain their people and draft officers want to mobilize them.

In addition to shrinking the workforce, the war has also reshaped its makeup. Especially scarce are trained specialists, and men of recruitment age – 25 to 60.  Some had hoped that women would be able to fill in for absent men, and many companies have instituted programs to retrain women for traditionally male-dominated roles.

Referencing when women flooded the workforce during World War II, Vyshlinsky said:

People picture London in 1942 but the difference is, in London, women hadn’t left the continent to be refugees. In our case, we don’t have a lot of spare women.

Source: The Kyiv Independent.