Nine out of ten businesses will increase or keep their staff stable 2025 and more than the half they will give increases to wages while the percentage of businesses declaring to reduce their staff was reduced to 4% from 9% last year. Businesses are positively evaluating the country’s situation, but concerns about the future are increasing.

These conclusions come from the research “Business Pulse’s Business Pulse” presented by the president of the BSE today Spyros Theodoropoulos and MRB Advisor Dimitris Mavros.

Especially on the subject of wageMr. Theodoropoulos also emphasized that they are main cause for the low purchasing power (and are not the profits of the secretions) and the cause for their low wages It is low productivity. “We have 38 euros per hour of work compared to 80 in Germany and 151 in Denmark. If the productivity is not increased we will try to share a pie that is not enough. “

As Mr. Theodoropoulos said in answering questions, concerns and the challenges detecting businesses are mainly related to three issues:

  • The risk of delaying reforms. “We have a slow pace, for example in justice. Rightly the government points out that there has been great progress in the field of tax evasion and tax evasion, which is also due to real reforms,” ​​the BSE president stressed.
  • The international environment where there is a large liquidity prevailing
  • The climate crisis which is a significant threat to agricultural production.

BSE’s survey It highlights as the most vulnerable not the small but the middle businesses. Specifically, the large (those who employ over 100 employees) appear more optimistic but also more durable, followed by small (10-49 employees) and very small businesses (up to 9 employees). The middle (50-99 workers) say more vulnerable and pessimistic. “They need tax incentives for mergers but also to create the corresponding culture. The environment is complicated and medium -sized businesses find it difficult to watch it because they do not have the flexibility of the young, nor the strengths of the big ones. “stressed the president of BSE.

According to research the main obstacles faced by businesses are taxation and the insurance contributions to workthe cost of energybusiness taxation, the bureaucracythe unfair competition, the staff and the speed of awarding justice.

Mr Theodoropoulos also raised three proposals for changes to the new development law: to eliminate the criterion of job creation as unemployment has receded and automation does not necessarily create new jobs, to accelerate the evaluation process and not to reimburse the control process.

And for the tax asked reduction her tax advance which he said is punishable by the rapidly growing operations.

See the research “The Business Pulse” here.