In years past, the period after the Chinese New Year's holidays has marked the high season for job openings. Data from the website 104 Job Bank show that in the first week of February this year, there were an additional 7800 openings. That represents a drop of 16 % from last year's 9300 new openings.
往年，農曆年長假後向來是企業徵才的旺季，104 人力銀行的求才資料庫顯示，今年 2 月初新增了 7,800 個工作機會，較去年同期的 9,300 個下滑 16 %，但是求職者人數卻暴增 0.5 倍，從 28 萬人增加到 40 萬人。