Hiring Survey Upbeat for Quarter
John O'Dell covers major Orange County corporations and manufacturing for The Times. He can be reached at (714) 966-5831 and at john.odell@latimes.com
Manpower Inc., the big temporary help agency, surveys employers around the nation each quarter about their hiring plans for the next three months and issues regional reports.
The company’s predictions for Orange County for the first quarter of 1999 are upbeat. About 22% of employers in the county said they planned to add to their staffs in the first three months, 72% said they expected things to remain unchanged, 5% said they expected to do some payroll cutting and the remaining 1% were uncertain.
A year ago, 26% of the county’s employers were expecting to hire in the first quarter, with 68% predicting no changes.
