Hiring To Surge in the UK Private Sector

It’s the kind of news that brings good cheer after a deluge of gloomy reports.

The latest quarterly CIPD/KPMG Labour Market Outlook survey in the United Kingdom (800 employers respondents) shows that the country’s emergence out of recession is now leading to better job prospects....


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PricewaterhouseCoopers Finds CEO More Confident, Hiring

PricewaterhouseCoopers typically releases its 13th Annual Global CEO Survey (1,200 CEO interviews in Q4-2009) in sync with World Economic Forum at Davos.

Last year, CEOs were feeling insecure and diffident about the future of the global economy and of their companies...

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Big4 Surveys: Optimism and Positive Sentiment Are Here Again

The Big Four firms periodically conduct global surveys on economic indicators, trends and specific industries. We have blogged earlier that such surveys have been quite accurate in gauging the advent and the depth of our ongoing economic crisis. Since these cover multiple industries, countries and executive levels and are conducted by independent and reputable firms, we can look to them as good indicators of global economic activity and a worthwhile complement to other well watched indices...



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Grant Thornton Survey Indicates Optimism Returns to Pre-Recession Levels

A little under a month ago (May 14, 2009) we blogged about a number independently conducted recent surveys by the Big 4 firms as a gauge for the depth and breadth of the global economic crisis and any nascent signs of its ending...




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