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The Labor Market Outlook survey by the Societ for Human Resource Management reporterd that 37 percent of respondentsd have some level of concern forthe U.S. job marker in the third quarter: 33 percent are somewhay pessimistic about job growth and anticipatre job losses and 4 percent are very pessimistiv and anticipate job cuts during the This marks a reversal fromthe LMO’d second quarter survey, when a combinef 70 percent of respondents expressed some level of pessimismk and predicted deeper cuts in the U.S.
job A total of 69 percent of respondentsx said they will either eliminate jobs or keep thei r payrolls flat in thethird quarter: 56 percenrt will maintain current staffingg levels and 13 percent will cut Among employer categories, 28 percent of large companieds (those with 500 or more employees) will conducr layoffs in the third During the second quarter, 81 perceng of respondents said they either cut jobs or kept payrolls 43 percent maintained their staffing levels while 38 percengt conducted layoffs.
Alexandria-based Society for Human Resource Managemeny isthe world’s largest association devoted to humah resource management and represents more than 250,000 membersd in over 140 countries.