Opinion

WA100 2020: Who’s hiring? The global talent race

By 2020-02-13T07:00:00

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’The profession is suffering from a missing generation of architects’

The uncertain sentiment picked up in the main WA100 survey can also be detected in the feedback on hiring and firing intentions. 

Nearly half of respondents (48%) expect to let nobody go over the next 12 months. This figure is slightly down on the 54% who gave this answer last year. 

More than a third (38%) plan to get rid of up to ten architects, which is slightly up on last year (33%). Just over one in 10 (11%) expected to make between 11 and 30 redundancies. 

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