HR Trends
April 2010 Trends
Hiring and Recalls
This month 16 percent of employers expect their organization’s hiring or recalls to increase, with an equal number of respondents reporting they expect them to decrease (16%). However, the majority of employers (68%) anticipate their hiring and recalls will remain static over the next month.
Lay-offs
Employers, for the most part, do not expect lay-offs to increase over the next month with 88 percent of employers reporting their lay-offs will remain static. 8 percent of employers from the printing and graphic communications industry anticipate their lay-offs will decrease over the next month. Lay-offs in the first quarter of 2010 appeared to have leveled off with no employers reporting lay-offs however, 4 percent of employers surveyed in April report their lay-offs will increase.
Training
Although 12 percent of respondents will spend more on training in the next month, 16 percent anticipate they will be investing less on training over the next month, than they did in the same month in 2009. The trend towards spending less on training than previous years is potentially significant and speaks to the uncertainty employers in the printing and graphic communications industry are currently experiencing. The majority of respondents (72%) report their training budgets to be on par with the amounts allocated to training in the previous year.
Challenges facing the industry and the human resource implications
When it comes to the challenges impacting human resources employers find the uncertainty of the market is impacting their sales and the way they have traditionally done business. These challenges impact their ability to plan for human resources in the short and long term future.
