Recovery: A View from the Inc. 500
A recent poll was taken of the CEOs of Inc. 500 companies showing optimism for 2010. 93.3% said they would be hiring in the next six months while only 3.3% said that they would be laying off in that same time-frame. They they were asked how many employees they had hired in the last six months. 65.5% said they hired one to ten, 15.5% said 10 to 20, 13% said 20 to 50, and 6% indicated that they had hired fifty or more employees. Optimism about 2010? 60% were very optimistic, 38.9% somewhat optimistic, and only 1.1% not very optimistic. Source: March 2010
Inc. magazine.