Macau\u2019s Statistics and Census Service has reported that there were 69,600 people employed in the industry in the second quarter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Macau.- The number of employees at gaming companies in Macau decreased by 4.3 per cent in the second quarter of the year when compared to the previous quarter. The Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) reported that 19.1 per cent of Macau’s workforce was employed in the gaming sector in, a drop of 0.5 percentage points quarter-on-quarter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The gaming industry’s underemployment figure rose 46.4 per cent when compared to the previous quarter to 4,100 at the end of June. That represented 26.4 per cent of the 15,700 underemployed in Macau.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to the DSEC, unpaid or partially paid leave was the main cause of underemployment, accounting for 45.6 per cent of the total \u2013 an increase of 4 percentage points quarter-over-quarter. Many businesses closed or limited operations during the latest Covid-19 outbreak<\/a>, increasing underemployment by 5,100 to 15,700.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In July,\u00a0casinos were also ordered to temporarily shut their doors<\/a>\u00a0for two weeks. This and the general lack of tourists led\u00a0GGR to fall<\/a> 83.9 per cent\u00a0<\/strong>month-on-month in July from MOP2.48bn to MOP398m (US$49.2m).<\/p>\n\n\n\n The figure was the lowest since 2003 when city authorities began publishing monthly figures. Macau\u2019s GGR for the first seven months of 2022 <\/strong>combined stands at MOP26.6bn (US$3.29bn), down 53.6 per cent year-on-year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Macau\u2019s Statistics and Census Service has reported that there were 69,600 people employed in the industry in the second quarter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":21791,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Macau's gaming industry experienced a 4.3% quarter-on-quarter decrease in employment and a 46.4% rise in underemployment in Q2, primarily due to COVID-19 related operational restrictions and closures. This workforce contraction coincides with a significant GGR decline, with July's GGR falling 83.9% month-on-month to MOP398m, marking the lowest figure since 2003, and year-to-date GGR down 53.6%.","focusai_entities":"Statistics and Census Service (DSEC)","focusai_location":"Macau","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.95), regulator (0.9), operator_casino (1.0), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.8), journalist_researcher (0.95)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Macau GGR Outlook","query":"What are the projected GGR recovery timelines and key drivers for Macau, considering the persistent impact of travel restrictions and evolving regulatory landscape?"},{"label":"Concessionaire Viability","query":"How might the sustained GGR decline and workforce adjustments impact the financial viability and capital expenditure plans of Macau's gaming concessionaires, particularly in the context of upcoming license renewals?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,16338],"tags":[23907,23906],"class_list":["post-32598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-casino-news","category-east-asia-news","tag-land-based-casino","tag-macau-casinos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32598"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32603,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32598\/revisions\/32603"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}