HR poll: Who’s hiring in ‘09? Who’s firing?
December 1, 2008 by Jim GiulianoPosted in: In this week's e-newsletter, Uncategorized
What’s the job situation look like for 2009 in your organization? Take our poll, and see how others answered.
In 2009, does your employer expect to:
- Stay about the same (52%, 575 Votes)
- Decrease the number of full-time positions (27%, 302 Votes)
- Increase the number of full-time positions (12%, 137 Votes)
- Not sure (9%, 92 Votes)
Total Voters: 1,106
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December 9th, 2008 at 3:36 pm
Actually, we aren’t doing anything with our “positions” (total number of authorized personnel), we are simply choosing to not backfill most positions recently vacated (except critical positions). Eventually if the economy turns around, we may then start filling these vacant positions back up to full staffing levels.
December 10th, 2008 at 10:44 am
The company begins to control overall manpower and labor costs very tight since November. Currently, we only allow some of critical positions and replacements. We anticipate that we may face the similar situation in 2009. But, we are currently trying to find the way that we use remaing and the next year budget effectively so we can have regular annual merit increase, promotions, incentives, etc.