Spanish professionals are the ones who change jobs the most, together with the French and British

It is a fund of 88,000 million euros over the next 7 years, in which priority will be given to young people and essential services. The European Social Fund will play a key role in the development of the action plan for the European pillar of social rights and the fight against the social and economic effects of the pandemic.

From the relocation and immigration department of SIT Spain we have been analyzing the data of several studies carried out during 2019 and 2020 29.4% of Spanish professionals declare to have changed jobs in the last six months. This data implies that Spain has high labor mobility, but that it would be due to the labor instability that the country has compared to other countries, since ours is above, for example, the United States (29.3%), the Netherlands (28.4%), Italy (23%), Japan (21.7%) or Portugal (21.5%). The mobility of Spanish workers is only surpassed by that of the French (29.7%), British (29.9%), and Germans (30.6%).

As far as Spain is concerned, age is a significant aspect in workers who change jobs, with the youngest being the most likely to start a new work experience. Thus, professionals under 25 years of age are those who have changed jobs the most in the last six months, specifically 59.4%. They are followed by employees between 25 and 44, of whom 33.5% have made a career change, while those over 45 were the most conservative, changing jobs just 16.4%.

In 2014-2020 Spain received €10.288 billion from this first priority fund for labor mobility, of which it has spent a total of €4.36 billion, 42% of the funding.