Comments on: Companies Ready to Unfreeze Salaries; Retention Worries Increase http://www.ere.net/2009/10/28/companies-ready-to-unfreeze-salaries-retention-worries-increase/ Recruiting News, Recruiting Events, Recruiting Community, Social Recruiting Tue, 14 Feb 2012 01:03:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Scott Beardsley http://www.ere.net/2009/10/28/companies-ready-to-unfreeze-salaries-retention-worries-increase/comment-page-1/#comment-16412 Scott Beardsley Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:46:41 +0000 http://www.ere.net/?p=10494#comment-16412 Excellent artilce! All of the factors lsited above will add to the macro forces at work, and we shoudl see a real talent shortage in abotu 18 months or less! Excellent artilce! All of the factors lsited above will add to the macro forces at work, and we shoudl see a real talent shortage in abotu 18 months or less!

]]> By: Keith Halperin http://www.ere.net/2009/10/28/companies-ready-to-unfreeze-salaries-retention-worries-increase/comment-page-1/#comment-16410 Keith Halperin Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:20:21 +0000 http://www.ere.net/?p=10494#comment-16410 Maybe, maybe not.... http://www.npr.org/templates/player/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=114308722&m=114308736 The most relevant portion begins at ~1:58 in...... Professor JOHN GRAHAM (Finance, Duke University): So we asked companies: When will you get your employment levels back to pre-recession levels? REED: John Graham is a finance professor at Duke University. He conducts a survey for CFO magazine of businesses across the country, big, small, public and private. Prof. GRAHAM: And this is where the numbers are a bit discouraging. Almost half of companies in many industries said it'll be three or four years, maybe longer, until employment gets back to where it was pre-recession. REED: There is some good news in the survey. CFOs say they've gotten more optimistic about the coming year, but they're still being extra cautious about spending money, which means they're trying to get the most out of the workers that they do have. Maybe, maybe not….

http://www.npr.org/templates/player/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=114308722&m=114308736
The most relevant portion begins at ~1:58 in……

Professor JOHN GRAHAM (Finance, Duke University): So we asked companies: When will you get your employment levels back to pre-recession levels?

REED: John Graham is a finance professor at Duke University. He conducts a survey for CFO magazine of businesses across the country, big, small, public and private.

Prof. GRAHAM: And this is where the numbers are a bit discouraging. Almost half of companies in many industries said it’ll be three or four years, maybe longer, until employment gets back to where it was pre-recession.

REED: There is some good news in the survey. CFOs say they’ve gotten more optimistic about the coming year, but they’re still being extra cautious about spending money, which means they’re trying to get the most out of the workers that they do have.

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