Staff Turnover Declines at Hungarian Companies

Staff turnover has slowed at Hungarian companies, which have been increasingly cautious in their recruitment in recent years. Currently, many employees would like to change jobs, but their options have become more limited, according to a statement released by the job portal Profession.hu to MTI on Friday.

The announcement highlighted that since 2023, the proportion of employers who have experienced greater labor turnover than in the previous year has been steadily declining: in 2023, 44% of companies reported this, in 2024, 37% reported this, and in 2025, 31% reported this. At the same time, however, more and more companies reported no change in their workforce compared to the previous year, with the proportion of these companies rising from 22% in 2023 and 23% in 2024 to 31% in 2025.

The survey pointed out that the declining turnover is also justified by more cautious recruitment on the part of employers, and employees also have fewer opportunities to change jobs, as the previous trend continued and the number of available jobs continued to decline, by 2.2% when comparing the first eleven months of 2025 and 2024.

Imre Tüzes, business development director at Profession.hu, emphasized in the announcement that turnover remains one of the most important indicators of organizational health. To a certain extent, depending on the size of the company and the industry, it is useful, contributing to renewal and bringing a fresh perspective to organizations.

The announcement also noted that while workforce mobility affected the vast majority of companies in the past year, only slightly more than half of them have a headcount plan, and even fewer have a human resource management strategy.

There has been no significant change in recruitment practices, and the proportion of those working with established, fixed recruitment processes has not increased, despite the fact that increasing efficiency remains a key HR challenge. On a positive note, however, more than two-thirds of companies measure and analyze the performance of their job advertisements at least occasionally, while three out of ten do so regularly, Imre Tüzes added.