03/14/2024

Employer Optimism Around Hiring Grows

Forty-eight percent of U.S. employers plan to hire this year

Human resources (HR) pros are preparing for a busy spring of recruiting, ManpowerGroup’s latest employment outlook survey, released on March 12, showed.

The Q2 U.S. net employment outlook—measured by subtracting the percentage of employers that expect to reduce staff from the percentage planning to hire—increased by 4 percent YOY to +34 percent, according to a survey of 6,000 US firms, part of the company’s global survey of 40,000 respondents. Almost one-half (48 percent) of U.S. employers surveyed planned to add staff in Q2, while 14 percent expected layoffs and 33 percent didn't anticipate staffing changes.

Tech and manufacturing, along with IT, finance, real estate, industrials, materials and healthcare, are the industries looking to do the most hiring, according to the survey.

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