{"id":26722,"date":"2025-12-22T07:35:42","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T07:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/22\/german-firms-turn-cautious-on-hiring-as-labour-market-weakens-ifo\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T07:35:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T07:35:42","slug":"german-firms-turn-cautious-on-hiring-as-labour-market-weakens-ifo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/22\/german-firms-turn-cautious-on-hiring-as-labour-market-weakens-ifo\/","title":{"rendered":"German firms turn cautious on hiring as labour market weakens: ifo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.fibre2fashion.com\/Newsresource\/images\/307\/shutterstock-514074871_318879.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">German companies have grown more cautious about hiring, and the majority are cutting jobs. Reflecting this trend, the ifo Employment Barometer fell to 91.9 points in December from 92.5 in November, its lowest level since May 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Job cuts are continuing across most industrial sectors, with clothing manufacturers in Germany particularly planning staff reductions, according to the ifo Institute.<\/p>\n<p>The ifo Employment Barometer fell to 91.9 in December, its lowest level since May 2020, reflecting ongoing job losses, especially in industry. &#13;<br \/>\nJob cuts are continuing across most sectors in Germany, with clothing manufacturers particularly reducing staff, according to the ifo Institute. &#13;<br \/>\nCompanies are increasingly cautious about hiring as the weak economy weighs on the labour market. <\/p>\n<p>The picture is similar in trade, with companies planning to employ fewer staff in the new year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 2025, we experienced gradual job cuts, especially in industry,\u201d said <strong><em>Klaus Wohlrabe, head of surveys at ifo.<\/em><\/strong> \u201cThe weak economy is continuing to slow down the labour market.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-right f2fdesk\">Fibre2Fashion News Desk (RR)<\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n    <\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fibre2fashion.com\/news\/apparel-news\/german-firms-turn-cautious-on-hiring-as-labour-market-weakens-ifo-307291-newsdetails.htm\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German companies have grown more cautious about hiring, and the majority are cutting jobs. Reflecting this trend, the ifo Employment Barometer fell to 91.9 points in December from 92.5 in November, its lowest level since May 2020. Job cuts are continuing across most industrial sectors, with clothing manufacturers in Germany particularly planning staff reductions, according&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fashion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}