Dismal job prospect
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months of 1982 only 10 per t expect to increase their f, against 15 per cent in the te period last year.
the three months to the end eptember, 12 per cent of ernters expected to take on .a staff.
rid it is not just on expansion t the industry is more omy. Manpower says that the nber of companies planning educe their workforce is insing, with cuts forecast by per cent of companies, inst only 15 per cent in the quarter of 1981.
or industry as a whole, the spects look better, with 18 cent of all employers predictstaff increases, against 16 cent last year. Staff cuts are dicted by 18 per cent, against )er cent last year. These views are reflected by at least some operators in the industry whose earlier optimism about the end of depressed times has evaporated, with some promising new markets having lost their initial appeal.