The most recent study carried out by eJobs shows the main professional wishes of Romanian employees for 2025. If in other years, stability at work was a priority, now many also want salary increases.
In 2025, employees want salary increases PHOTO: Archive
Job stability, salary and fringe benefits, and work-life balance are the biggest concerns. However, 43.4% of respondents are optimistic or very optimistic about the coming year.
According to cariera.ejobs, 4 out of 10 participants answered that the main plan they have for 2025, from a professional point of view, is to get a job, either because they want to change their current job or because they have run out of jobs work in 2024.
The other professional wishes that emerged from the study: 22.6% hope for a salary increase, 11.5% want to be able to work from home, 5.6% to be promoted, 4.3% plan to start a retraining course professional, nearly 10% say they have no reason to be optimistic about 2025.
“Interestingly, we no longer see an overwhelming percentage of those ticking the option to work from home as their main desire for the next year. Although the number of applications for remote jobs is still high, candidates and employees are beginning to understand the signals that employers are sending that they prefer to hire people who come to the office rather than people who work only or mostly from home from home. Otherwise, compared to last year, we see a bit more stability, employees who are more cautious about making career moves unless they have an acute reason for dissatisfaction. For example, if in this year’s survey 40% of respondents told us that they want to change their job in the next year, in last year’s the percentage was 56%”says Raluca Dumitra, Head of Marketing at eJobs, the largest online recruitment platform in Romania.
Moreover, of those who hope to be employed in 2025, 49.7% declare that they are already looking for a new job.
According to Ejobs specialists, the perspectives that generate concern about the new year are, first of all, those related to job stability (32.2%), salary and extra-salary benefits (27.9%), keeping a balance between personal life and professional (21.9%) and, in much smaller percentages, the development of skills and competences (6.9%) or advancement opportunities (5.6%).
However, 13.9% are very optimistic about the coming year, 29.3% are optimistic, 25.1% have a neutral attitude, 24.8% are worried, and 6.9% are very worried.
Romanians also anticipate certain changes that will take place on the labor market starting next year. The most important is related to the fact that employers will demand new skills and abilities (45.3%).
Also, 36% believe that there will be restructuring and reorganization of the company they currently work for, 19.8% predict that the level of automation and the role of technology in their day-to-day work will increase, 21.2% expect to see more remote work opportunities, and 14.2% talk about more internal and international mobility opportunities.
The survey was conducted in December of this year, on a sample of 900 respondents from the candidates and employees segment.
