OREANDA-NEWS  The Etalon development group plans to attract builders from Myanmar and Vietnam to its facilities, said Mikhail Margelov, vice president of the company.

"Etalon Group was one of the first in the construction market to attract employees from abroad and is currently in the final stage of negotiations with the largest developers in Myanmar and Vietnam on the creation of joint ventures," he said at a conference in Moscow.

As Margelov noted, for many months Russia has been experiencing record low unemployment, provoking a personnel shortage that will persist for at least several years. The forecast of the Ministry of Economic Development assumes that unemployment will remain at 2.6% over the forecast horizon of 2025-2027.

The shortage of personnel is observed in almost all sectors of the economy, but it is especially acute in the construction sector, the vice president of the company stressed. According to the estimates of the Russian government, the shortage of personnel in construction is about 200 thousand people.