Nairobi, Feb. 22 -- Corporate executives plan to hire more workers and upskill their current workforce this year to support expansions, a new survey by the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) has disclosed.

At least 89 percent of bank Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) and 56 percent of the executives in other sectors of the economy indicated plans to increase the number of workers they had last year, sending positive signals for the year ahead.

In the survey conducted in January, 43 percent of bank CEOs expressed strong confidence to hire more workers this year while another 46 percent indicated the possibility of adding the staff numbers.

In the non-banking sector, the survey shows, at least 11 percent of the executives have guaranteed adding s...