Modest improvement in employment prospects to accelerate in Q3

RP news wires
Tags: business management, talent management

The modest improvement in job prospects observed through the first six months of 2010 will accelerate in the third quarter according to projections from 221 employers responding to BNA's latest quarterly employment survey. However, while reports of current layoffs and planned reductions-in-force are down from levels reported a year ago, there has been little change in these figures over the past two quarters.

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BNA's survey of the employment outlook has been conducted quarterly since 1974. This report is based on responses from 221 human resource and employee relations executives representing a cross-section of U.S. employers, both public and private.