Fewer Dutch Workers Switching Jobs In 2025

ACCORDING to caller figures released by Statistics Netherlands, less workers person switched jobs successful nan 2nd 4th of this twelvemonth compared to nan aforesaid play of 2022. The caller study states that overall, 305,000 workers, aliases 3.8 per cent, changed jobs successful Q2 of 2025, compared to nan 358,000, 4.7 per cent, successful 2022.

The figures show that astir group who changed jobs successful this year, astir 62 per cent, were progressive successful a flexible, not permanent, employment contract. These elastic contracts see statement workers, impermanent workers, and those only moving for a fixed play of time, arsenic good arsenic different types of non-permanent employment arrangements.

In particular, nan statistic show that group pinch sales, administration, reception desk, and driver (including taxi and transportation van) occupations are choosing to enactment put successful 2025 much than successful 2022. Notwithstanding, though nan diminution successful these groups is nan astir melodramatic compared to 3 years ago, occupation switchers remained nan astir communal successful these fields arsenic good arsenic nan cultivation sphere.

Moreover, those who didn’t person overmuch seniority successful their companies (that is, little than a year) were little apt to move jobs. Managers of each kinds were besides much apt to enactment put.

Dutch employees, immoderate of nan happiest successful nan EU?

This melodramatic displacement could beryllium attributed to nan truth that nan labour marketplace is overmuch much unchangeable now than it was a specified 3 years ago. With nan easing of nan occupation market, group consciousness safer to look for other, much beneficial options that amended align pinch their needs.

The Netherlands’ caller experimenting pinch nan four time activity week could besides person thing to do pinch nan melodramatic shift, arsenic nan arrangement, which has been mostly adopted by galore companies crossed nan country, has shown to beryllium highly beneficial to employees’ intelligence health, beingness health, slumber cycles, contentment pinch their employers, and wide happiness.