“Workers in processing plants, construction sites and agricultural farms are overwhelmingly over 50”

Economy

Workers in processing plants, construction sites and agricultural farms are mostly over 50 years old. It would be useful for politicians in the electoral campaign to note this.

Dragoș Damian, CEO Terapia Cluj

It is good that, at least in the election campaign, the candidates go out to the construction sites for filming and pictures with a helmet and a reflective vest to see with their own eyes the progress of public projects funded in the vast majority by taxes and fees paid by the taxpayers.

Soon, you will see, the candidates will go to processing factories and agricultural farms, preferably those where there are many employees instead. And there are some excellent pictures out there, helmets, vests, gowns, industrial assembly lines, milking lines, etc.

The Romanian employees in the processing factories, on the construction sites and in the agricultural farms belong in the great majority to the Decreței generation – Romania’s Baby-Boomers – in the great majority of them now over 50 years old. Very few Millennials and Zoomers choose manual labor, in fact many of them choose to be NEET.

There was also talk about the disproportionate weight of the Decrees in physical work in factories, construction and agriculture and the extremely serious consequences that derive from this.

1) The decrees go on for 5-10 years in a pension that no one has to pay anymore due to the decrease of the active population, the exodus of the labor force and the dessert of the birth rate.

2) The coming of hundreds of thousands of Asians to work in processing factories, on construction sites or in agricultural farms represents an unknown sea, with an evolution that is difficult to estimate in the next 10 years – including from a demographic point of view. In fact, it is difficult to estimate the impact of the imported workforce even in the immediate term, after Romania fully enters Schengen and the Arabs start construction at Neom.

3) And, last but not least, we say it, artificial intelligence, digitization, automation and technologization will not be able to replace physical work completely and in no case in the next 10 years when Romania has to build its infrastructure and in no case in processing plants, construction sites and agricultural farms.

“What we don’t have, however, are specialists in the work of processing factories”

HR professionals are plentiful. In consulting, in mindfulness, in legal advice, in compliance, in recruitment, in dismissal, in memorable experiences, in coaching, in training, in conversion, in remote work and close work, in intra and extra-salary benefits, in insurance of life – everyone sells something that is usually not needed. What we don’t have, however, are specialists in processing factories, construction sites and agricultural farms.

When you pass by a construction site look carefully at the people working there, the vast majority have for 50 years. The same happens in processing plants and agricultural farms. No one comes behind to take their place.

It is desirable that after the elections, the future leaders of Romania leave it softer with the pillar in the forums, conferences, debates and seminars about how we are going to do and direct in research and development, artificial intelligence, digitization, technology, automation and other such “priorities” and to accept that without the added value brought by processing factories, construction sites and agricultural farms, Romania has no chance of sustainable economic growth.

Industrial policies and strategies on food, chemical, energy and defense and human resource development for these fields. This is what the European industrialists who signed the declaration from Antwerp demanded, about which no one in Romania spoke, except for Ștefan Vuza.

Opinion of Dragoș Damian, CEO of Terapia Cluj

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