The business situation of banks has gone more than half the way. Accordingly, in the first six months, many banks had been operating better, and there were also banks showing more difficulties and negative growth.
Not only business results, the situation of bank human resources also had many changes. According to statistics, there were thousands of employees who quit their jobs in some big banks in Q2/2019a rare change in the last few years.
Vietnam Prosperity Joint-Stock Commercial Bank (VPBank)’s financial statements stated that at the end of June, the number of employees at the parent bank was only 9,480, decreasing by 1,466 people in the three months of the second quarter. Previously, in the first quarter, the number of employees at this bank also decreased by 520 people. Accordingly, accumulated 6 months, the total number of employees of VPBank decreased to nearly 2,000 people.
In Asia Commercial Joint Stock Bank (ACB), 505 employees quit their jobs in the bank in Q2/2019, leaving only 10,471 people at the end of June. Compared to the beginning of the year, ACB’s staff decreased by 168 people.
In Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Investment and Development of Vietnam (BIDV), after reducing 108 people in the first quarter, the number of staff at this bank continued to decrease by 30 people to 23,244 employees.
In Bac A Commercial Joint Stock Bank (BacABank), the number of employees at the end of June was 1,945 people, down 52 people compared to the end of June.
In fact, before that, in the first quarter, according to statistics, there were nearly ten banks reducing staff, but the strongest was only 520 employees in VPBank. The decline in the number of employees in the first months of the year was understandable because it is the time when the human resource market fluctuates due to the high rate of transferred job. By the second quarter, with the recruitment, the number of employees in the banks began to increase normally, only a few banks mentioned above continuing to reduce staffing.
While VPBank, BIDV and ACB reduced the number of employees with a large scale, in the opposite direction, there were also many recruitment banks in the first six months.
In Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Foreign Trade of Vietnam (Vietcombank), the number of employees at the end of June was 17,848 people, an increase of 1,136 employees compared to the beginning of the year, which was also the largest increase in the 20 banks that announced the financial statements.
At Tien Phong Commercial Joint Stock Bank (TPBank), although decreasing by 159 people in the first quarter, in the second quarter, the number of employees of this bank was added 682 people to the number of 5,508 employees.
Military Commercial Joint Stock Bank (MBBank) and Vietnam Technological and Commercial Joint Stock Bank (Techcombank) added 739 people and 529 people respectively in the first half of 2019.
