Almost three quarters (72%) of Romanian companies have implemented hybrid work, granting freedom of choice to the employee and team regarding office presence, according to a study made by PwC Romania.Presence still remains low, of under 25%, according to 45% of respondents, but for long term, more than half of these (56%) estimate a significant growth of those who will work from the office, between 50% and 75% of total employees."Employees started having more faith in returning to the office, being encouraged by investments in security measures, by employers, as well as the implementation of a hybrid work system. Companies want to keep their employees and to attract new talents, in the context in which the ambitious growth plans can be limited by the lack of human resources. Thus, we see that the majority of respondents have increased their salary budget for 2022 in order to cover the rise of inflation in the second half of the year. And an important emphasis is placed on granting benefits, companies including more and more options, especially in the employees' health and wellbeing category," Oana Munteanu, People & Organisation Leader PwC Romania, declared in a press release.According to the HR Barometer survey, only 8% of respondents have currently implemented full remote work and 11% work from the office exclusively, respecting the legal provisions.Regarding the initial salary budget estimates for next year, more than half of companies have reviewed these budgets upwards.The study shows that 28% of respondents have already increased their salary budget estimated for 2022 by 3 percentage points, 15% to up to 3 percentage points, 46% kept the estimated percentage for salary increase for 2022, 8% have not made a decision yet, and 1% have decreased their budget. Average salary growth in the respondent industries for 2022 is placed at 7%.The PwC Romania HR Barometer took place between December 12-21, 2021, based on the information supplied by 71 companies from IT & Telecommunication, retail, FMCG, pharmaceutical, financial services, industry and insurance. 17% of the respondent companies have over 3,000 employees, between 1,001 - 3,000 employees, 13% between 501-1,000 employees, 32% between 101-500 employees and 18% with under 100 employees.
Around 32% of Romanians plan to spend their upcoming holidays abroad, with Greece, Italy, and Spain topping the list of preferred destinations, according to the Visa CEE Travel and Payment Intentions Study 2025. Of those going abroad for the summer, nearly 40% say they are “experience seekers,” prioritizing discoveries and stepping out of their comfort […]
Călin Georgescu, the far-right, Russia-friendly politician who surprisingly emerged as the first-round winner of last year’s presidential elections, will remain under judicial supervision after the District 1 Court in Bucharest rejected his appeal against the prosecutors’ decision to extend the preventive measure,
The mayor of Timișoara, Dominic Fritz, will be the new leader of the Save Romania Union party, or USR, after he received 67.2% of the votes in an internal race. The vote for the new party president was conducted online and started Wednesday at 10 AM and ended Friday at noon. A total of 10,914 […]
The Sports Barometer in Romania, a study conducted by IRES and presented on Thursday, June 12, during the Sports Festival, reveals that 32% of Romanians do not engage in any type of physical activity, and that as age increases motivation drastically decreases. According to the study, 28% of Romanians are super-active and do a form […]
The Romanian-American University has officially launched the country’s first Department of Latin American Studies (DSLA), marking a significant step in its internationalization efforts. The inauguration brought together official representatives from eight Latin American countries - Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay - underlining the strong diplomatic support for deepening educational and cultural […]
Romanian president Nicușor Dan laid wreaths on Friday, June 13, at the Monument dedicated to the memory of the victims of the June 13–15, 1990 Mineriad and at the “Kilometer Zero of Democracy” Monument. The violent events of June 1990 remain in post-communist memory as the “June 13–15, 1990 Mineriad” and refer to the repression, […]
