Hiring in Region, State to be Slow, Manpower Finds
Hiring in the Detroit region and Michigan overall is expected to be sluggish in the fourth quarter, according to the latest Manpower Employment Outlook Survey.
For the southeast Michigan region as whole, Manpower reports, 9 percent of employers surveyed plan to add to their payrolls in the fourth quarter of 2008, while 60 percent plan to keep payrolls the same. Twenty-two percent said they plan to decrease payrolls, while 9 percent were not sure. That created a net employment outlook of -13 percent for the region as a whole.
In Ann Arbor, the outlook was a bit better. There, 22 percent said they planned to add to payrolls, 62 percent planned no change and 17 percent plan employment cuts. That created a net employment outlook of 4 percent.
The worst county outlook in the state was reported by employers in Livingston County, which has an employment outlook of -50 percent.
In Wayne County, the net outlook is -15 percent. In Oakland County, the net outlook is -10 percent. For the state as a whole, the outlook is -3 percent.
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