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In 2025, 36% of the group of workers who have quit or are unemployed have not found a new job. Photo: Quynh Chi
In 2025, 36% of the group of workers who have quit or are unemployed have not found a new job. Photo: Quynh Chi

Unemployed workers are increasingly having difficulty returning to the market

Quỳnh Chi (báo lao động) 22/01/2026 08:45 (GMT+7)

The Vietnam Employment Market Report in the new context shows that unemployed workers are increasingly having difficulty returning to the market.

The report was conducted by 24h Work and Coc Coc Research, based on an online survey in December 2025 with 1,009 employees, candidates and employers aged 18 and over nationwide.

According to the report, 2025 recorded stability in the majority of the workforce with more than half of survey participants still working in the old position at the old company. There were 9.5% who voluntarily quit their jobs and 4.3% were fired, falling into unemployment.

Notably, the unemployed labor group faces many difficulties when finding new jobs.

For the group that had quit or been unemployed in the past year, 36% have not found a new job. This figure shows the difficulty in re-entering the labor market.

16.3% of unemployed employees have not yet started looking for new job opportunities, showing that the process of finding new jobs has not taken place immediately for a part of the staff, showing a certain interruption and delays in job shifting.

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