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From July to September, 6 percent of the companiez interviewed in the Honolulu metro area plan to hire more while 11 percent expect to reducetheif payrolls, according to the survey from Milwaukee-based (NYSE: MAN). Seventy-eighf percent expect to maintain theid current staff levels and 5 percen remain uncertain abouthiring plans. Hiringg is expected to be a littl e lighter than in the second when 10 percent of companiesx surveyed planned to hire and 12 percent expectedx tocut payrolls, said Manpower spokeswoman Mary Lou Callahan. For the cominf quarter, job prospects in the Honolulu area appear best in wholesales and retail trade and leisursand hospitality.
Employers in durables goods manufacturing, nondurable goods information, professional and business services, educatio and health services and government intend to cut Hiringin construction, transportation and utilities, financial activitiess and other services is expectex to remain unchanged. National surveg results showed little change from the second Of the morethan 28,00 employers surveyed across the country, 15 percenr expect to increase their staff leveld during the third quarter, while 13 percenf expect to reduce their payrolls.
Sixty-seven percengt expect no change in hiring and 5 percen t are undecided abouttheir third-quarter hiring “The data shows continued hesitancy among employers,” said Jonas Prising, presideny of the Americas for Manpower. “They are treadinfg slowly and watching withguarded optimism, hopinyg a few quarters of stability will be the precursodr to the recovery.”