Jeffrey Joerres
Jeffrey Joerres
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U.S. employers are still void of the business confidence needed to increase their employment projections for the third quarter, ... Employers have expressed uncertainty in hiring intentions in recent Manpower Employment Outlook Surveys, but this quarter represents the weakest job outlook in 12 years.
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German employers are saying they will begin to add employees again, albeit modestly, and hiring activity in Japan should be vigorous, beyond what we normally see in the second quarter -- their peak hiring season. Chinese employers say they will reduce their hiring activity compared to last year at this time, while U.S. employers expect to add to their payrolls at a continued steady pace.
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Companies are as optimistic as they have been for the last five quarters over which we've seen job gains. Hiring intentions are holding at a high level.
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There seems to be momentum building. The question is whether it's strong enough to carry through to the first and second quarter of 2004.
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There's also the practicality that people are needed to do the work, but I'm not sure whether the third quarter gives us the proverbial hockey stick, ... What our guidance would tell you is we're not seeing that as going to happen in the third quarter.
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We've got the spinnaker up, but the sail is sort of flapping at the moment,
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We see much more of a structural shift happening in Germany than we do in any other European country. We've spent a lot of money there.
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When we talk to customers, they are talking about hiring more, they have plans to hire more, ... But they're still being cautious because of the amount of uncertainty surrounding ... interest rates, oil prices and conflicts overseas.
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We will be turning this barren site into a phenomenal building site. This will have a positive impact for Milwaukee.
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When you put it all together you get what you have now, a tight labor market but no wage inflation. We are in a whole new territory.
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I think it will be very isolated to that area. In talking to customers and talking to companies, it's an immense tragedy, but when they look at their own hiring pattern, they don't see it as having much effect yet.
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London felt the upturn earlier and stronger than all of the others. Hiring in Britain didn't drop as much as it did in the rest of the world through 2003, in financial markets and other industries.
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It is clear that demand for their products and services has finally surpassed the capacity and productivity of the current workforce,
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We go up, we bounce back down, but we end up in about the same place.