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2026. 08. 03.

Hungary heat emergency 3–5 August: what workers need to know

Hungary is running a three-day heat emergency from Monday to Wednesday, and the country is quietly rewriting its working week around it. Public administration has shifted to remote work . Some nurseries and kindergartens may close. Rail freight ...

2026. 07. 31.

5 min

Hungary 2026: where net HUF 500,000 starts for graduates

You finish your degree, update your CV, and hit send on the first application. Whether you get a reply next week or wait three months for a rejection has less to do with your grades than with the field printed on your diploma. Hungary's graduate ...

2026. 07. 29.

5 min

Hungary's 4.4% jobless rate masks long-term unemployment

Hungary's headline jobless rate sits at 4.4%, one of the calmer numbers in Central Europe. Look one layer down and the picture changes: 214,000 people are out of work as of June 2026, more than one in three of them have been searching for over a ...

2026. 07. 29.

4 min

Hungary Q2 2026 blue-collar wages up 8.5% and what it means

Hungarian blue-collar wages grew 8.5% year-on-year in Q2 2026, while inflation dropped below 2%. On paper, that is a 6 to 7% real-wage gain for workers, the fastest in years. For HR leaders, it is a harder question: is this the new pay floor, or ...

2026. 07. 29.

4 min

Hungary's pension gap: 40-year career leaves you 47,000 forints short

If you are five, ten, or fifteen years away from retirement, the number you should be watching is not just your current salary. It is the gap between what you earn now and what the state pension will actually pay you on day one, and how quickly ...

2026. 07. 16.

4 min

Home Office During the Heatwave: What Employees and Employers Need to Know

As temperatures continue to reach record highs across Europe, the government introduced emergency measures aimed at protecting workers during the current heatwave. Prime Minister Péter Magyar announced that public sector institutions should s...

2026. 07. 09.

3 min

Middle Manager Burnout in Hungary

There's a type of professional exhaustion that rarely makes it into HR reports, even though it sits at the root of many retention problems. It's middle manager burnout - the exhaustion of the person who passes pressure down from above and absorbs ...

2026. 07. 03.

2 min

Brain Drain: Who will do the work when educated youth leave and the workforce ages?

The exodus of talents (Brain Drain) has long ceased to be just a statistical concept or a topic for academic debate. For companies on the local market, it is a harsh economic reality hitting directly at the heart of human resource departments. ...

2026. 06. 25.

4 min

The Entry Level vs AI Trap: Why the Job Market Risks Running Out of Mid Level Specialists in the Coming Years

The job market is undergoing an unprecedented technological revolution, and one of the greatest global challenges is restructuring how companies build their teams. The mass adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) and automation has created a ...

2026. 06. 18.

4 min

Pay Transparency in Hungary: From Unstructured Systems to Calibrated Salary Bands

The era of wage secrecy is officially coming to an end across the European Union. With the transposition deadline for the EU Pay Transparency Directive (Directive 2023/970) set for June 2026, companies operating in Hungary are facing an immediate ...

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