Two-thirds of UAE professionals are expected to actively look for new jobs in the first half of 2022, a survey has pointed out.
The survey by recruitment company Robert Walters has shown that about two-thirds of professionals in the UAE will actively look for new jobs in the first half of this year as business confidence and hiring activity return to pre-pandemic levels.
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Fifty-nine per cent of workers in the Emirates feel “very confident” about job opportunities in their sector.
The survey polled 3,000 white-collar employees from December 2021 to January this year.
Robert Walters said that a large majority of white-collar workforce in the UAE has held on to jobs in anticipation of a New Year bonus and pay rise and will continue to be “market curious” throughout 2022.
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Jason Grundy, managing director of Robert Walters Middle East and Africa, said that, ” many companies decided on their 2022 raises a few months ago before we had a clear picture of how competitive and candidate-short the market was going to be.”
About 28 per cent of UAE employers planned to make changes to existing remuneration packages,.
