{"id":11878,"date":"2025-07-21T22:31:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T22:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/11878\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T22:31:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T22:31:15","slug":"share-of-russian-companies-planning-layoffs-has-nearly-doubled-in-six-months-meduza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/11878\/","title":{"rendered":"Share of Russian companies planning layoffs has nearly doubled in six months \u2014 Meduza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"SimpleBlock-module_p__7aRnT \">Halfway through 2025, the share of\u00a0businesses in\u00a0Russia that are planning to\u00a0cut jobs has nearly doubled from the beginning of\u00a0the year, rising from 6.9 percent in\u00a0January to\u00a011.5 percent in\u00a0July, according to\u00a0a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cbr.ru\/Collection\/Collection\/File\/57027\/0725.pdf\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">report<\/a> by\u00a0the Russian Central Bank on\u00a0regional economic trends.<\/p>\n<p class=\"SimpleBlock-module_p__7aRnT \">The share of\u00a0companies expecting to\u00a0maintain current employment levels also increased, from 62 percent in\u00a0January to\u00a065 percent in\u00a0June. The Central Bank noted that the decline in\u00a0workforce shortages was most pronounced in\u00a0the mining, engineering, and pharmaceutical sectors, attributing it\u00a0to\u00a0falling demand for their products. The report said that some companies have already begun reducing staff, moving to\u00a0shorter workweeks, or\u00a0sending employees on\u00a0unscheduled leave.<\/p>\n<p class=\"SimpleBlock-module_p__7aRnT \">The Bank also reported that in\u00a0April 2025, annual nominal wage growth had slowed in\u00a0most industries compared to\u00a0January. This was driven in\u00a0part by\u00a0falling wages in\u00a0the finance and insurance sector, as\u00a0well as\u00a0slower growth in\u00a0mining, retail, and construction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"SimpleBlock-module_p__7aRnT \">At\u00a0the same time, some companies are still planning to\u00a0expand their workforce, the report said. These include engineering firms in\u00a0the Chelyabinsk region and companies in\u00a0the Leningrad region, where major investment projects in\u00a0the gas chemical industry have sharply increased the demand for labor.<\/p>\n<p>Sign up for Meduza\u2019s daily newsletter<\/p>\n<p>A digest of Russia\u2019s investigative reports and news analysis. If it matters, we summarize it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Halfway through 2025, the share of\u00a0businesses in\u00a0Russia that are planning to\u00a0cut jobs has nearly doubled from the beginning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,164,13724,13719,13722,13711,13704,13716,13706,13717,13723,13712,13700,13707,13701,13709,13710,13702,13705,13703,13721,13715,13708,13720,13718,13714,13713],"class_list":["post-11878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-13724","tag-13719","tag-13722","tag-13711","tag-13704","tag-13716","tag-13706","tag-13717","tag-13723","tag-13712","tag-13700","tag-13707","tag-13701","tag-13709","tag-13710","tag-13702","tag-13705","tag-13703","tag-13721","tag-13715","tag-13708","tag-13720","tag-13718","tag-13714","tag-13713"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}