Dollars and Jens
Tuesday, December 16, 2003
 
jobs
More Firms to Add Staff; Cuts Planned Too, reads the headline.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. employers were more optimistic about hiring staff in the year's first quarter than in the fourth quarter for the first time in five years, a survey said on Tuesday, offering hope to job seekers.

Staffing company Manpower Inc. said employers in nine of the 10 sectors surveyed expect to offer more jobs in the first quarter of 2004 than in the final period of 2003.

But the uptick could be tempered as the number of companies expecting to reduce payrolls is up as well.

This is presumably a better indicator of the payroll numbers than of the household survey numbers.

- posted by dWj @ 12:38 PM

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