All the World's Your Stage

摘要

The most recent Manpower Employment Outlook Survey shows U.S. employers expect to continue relatively strong hiring during this second quarter of 2005. Among the 16,000 organizations surveyed, the net employment outlook (the percentage of employers expecting to increase staff minus the percentage expecting to decrease payrolls) for the quarter is 23 percent. Of course, U.S. employers do not operate in isolation; they are part of the global economy. Since 2002, Manpower has also surveyed countries outside of North America, including, for the first time this year, China and Taiwan. Of the 21 countries and territories in the latest survey, four Asian Pacific nations-Japan (35 percent), Taiwan (35 percent), New Zealand (30 percent) and China (28 percent) -reported the strongest net employment outlook. (For more results, visit www.manpower.com/meos.)