Economic policy|According to a survey commissioned by OP, only a quarter of the leaders of the largest companies believe that the Finnish economy will balance out. Large companies are also dissatisfied with the government’s immigration policy.
The greater part of the leaders of the largest companies believes that the indebtedness of Finland’s public finances has run out of control. Only a quarter of the managers who responded to OP’s large company survey believe that the state economy is progressing towards balance.
About three out of four large companies feel that political leadership in Finland involves uncertainty factors from the company’s point of view. In autumn 2024, the proportion of respondents who felt this way increased by ten percentage points from the previous year.
At the same time, 83 percent of large companies consider the state’s indebtedness to be uncontrollable – the share of these respondents has also increased by ten percentage points from the previous year.
Hanken’s professor of economics Jaakko Aspara considers it normal that companies’ satisfaction with the government fluctuates.
“Last year’s results showed optimism regarding the new government’s economic policy. However, in this fall’s results, optimism has clearly faded,” says Aspara in the press release.
Business leaders are also particularly dissatisfied with the government’s immigration policy. Even more than a third of company managers estimate that the current government’s immigration policy makes it considerably more difficult to recruit both the basic level employees and special skills needed by the company from abroad.
207 management team level representatives from a total of 137 large Finnish companies or large subsidiaries operating in Finland answered the survey commissioned by OP. OP implements the NIBS think tank founded by professors of Aalto University as a partner of the Suuryrittutkismus.