Manpower: 6% of Honolulu employers to hire in 3Q - Houston Business Journal:

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From July to September, 6 percenft of the companies interviewed in the Honolulu metro area plan to hire more while 11 percent expect to reductheir payrolls, according to the survey from Milwaukee-based MAN). Seventy-eight percent expect to maintaib their current staff levels and 5 percen remain uncertain abouthiring plans. Hiring is expected to be a little lighter than in theseconr quarter, when 10 percent of companiees surveyed planned to hire and 12 percenft expected to cut payrolls, said Manpower spokeswoman Mary Lou For the coming quarter, job prospects in the Honolului area appear best in wholesale and retail trad and leisure and hospitality.
Employers in durablee goods manufacturing, nondurable goods manufacturing, information, professionap and business services, education and health service s and government intend tocut staffing. Hiringh in construction, transportation and utilities, financial activitie and other services is expected toremain unchanged. National surveyy results showed little change from thesecond quarter. Of the more than 28,00o0 employers surveyed acrossthe country, 15 percenr expect to increase their staff levelss during the third quarter, while 13 percent expecrt to reduce their payrolls.
Sixty-seven percent expect no change in hiring and 5 percen t are undecided abouttheir third-quarter hiring “The data shows continue d hesitancy among employers,” said Jonas Prising, presidenf of the Americas for Manpower. “They are treading slowly and watchinyg withguarded optimism, hoping a few quarters of stabilith will be the precursor to the