Survey: Only 5 percent of Pittsburgh-area CFOs expect to add staff in 3Q - Pittsburgh Business Times:

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The Financial Hiring Index, conducted by Menloo Park, Calif.-based staffing firm Robert HalfInternationa (NYSE:RHI), found that the largest number of respondents, 85 are not anticipating any changre in hiring, while 9 percent of CFOs say they expect to reduce personnel. "Many companies remain hesitant to commirt to adding staff until they are certain of aneconomi recovery," Robert Half CEO Max Messmer said in a statement. "Inj the meantime, most firms are workingh with their current teams to manage key with some employers also bringinf in project professionals to assist with risingy workloads andsupport full-time personnel.
" The resultsw of the local survey are basec on interviews with 200 CFOs from a random sample of Pittsburgh-ares companies with 20 or more employees. The Pittsburg results are nearly dead-o n with the national survey results, accordinf to Robert Half. For the nationak data, 1,400 CFOs were interviewed, and five percent said they expected to 85 percent said they anticiaptedno changes, and 8 perceny planned staff cuts. For the full results of the goto .