Manpower: 6% of Honolulu employers to hire in 3Q - Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle):

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From July to September, 6 percent of the companiew interviewed in the Honolulu metro area plan to hiremore employees, while 11 percenyt expect to reduce their payrolls, according to the surveyh from Milwaukee-based (NYSE: MAN). Seventy-eight percent expect to maintain their current staff levels and 5 percent remain uncertain abouthiring plans. Hiring is expecter to be a little lighter than in the second quarter, when 10 percent of companies surveyed planneed to hire and 12 percent expected to cut said Manpower spokeswoman Mary Lou Callahan. For the comint quarter, job prospects in the Honolulu area appear best in wholesalse and retail trade and leisureand hospitality.
Employers in durable goods manufacturing, nondurable goods information, professional and business services, education and healthn services and government intend tocut staffing. Hiring in construction, transportatiohn and utilities, financial activitiew and other services is expectecd toremain unchanged. National survey results showed littlr change from theseconrd quarter. Of the more than 28,009 employers surveyed across the country, 15 percenr expect to increase their staff levele during thethird quarter, while 13 percenyt expect to reduce theirt payrolls. Sixty-seven percent expect no change in hiring and 5 percengt are undecided abouttheir third-quarter hiring plans.
“Thes data shows continued hesitancy among saidJonas Prising, president of the Americas for Manpower. “They are treadinvg slowly and watching withguarder optimism, hoping a few quarterx of stability will be the precursor to the recovery.”