{"id":336526,"date":"2026-03-19T00:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T00:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/336526\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T00:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T00:25:09","slug":"most-new-zealand-employers-planning-to-hire-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/336526\/","title":{"rendered":"Most New Zealand employers planning to hire in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Wellington, uncompetitive salary emerged as the primary driver of employee exits, followed by limited career development opportunities and limited employee benefits.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Notable, there is not turnover attributed to flexibility, training, recognition, or work-life balance, suggesting exits are more financially and structurally motivated,&#8221; the report read.<\/p>\n<p>Finances driving hiring challenges<\/p>\n<p>Finances are also a strong factor in why job offers do not push through in New Zealand, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>Some 42% of the respondents cited low salary as the reason why job offers fall through, while 24% said there was a better offer elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Procedural factors are also among the reasons why some job offers do not push through, such as poor communication (41%), poor candidate experience (35%), and a prolonged hiring process (31%).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Wellington, uncompetitive salary emerged as the primary driver of employee exits, followed by limited career development opportunities&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336527,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49886,79012,1144,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-336526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-career-opportunities","tag-hiring-plans","tag-human-resources","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}