Employment Forecast Survey 2008
Q1. How do you view the employment picture for talent in 2009?
- Add new staff
- Promote existing staff
- Retain and motivate current staff
- Downsize or adjust staff to anticipate or respond to the marketplace
- Other:
Q2. In you organization, have there been layoffs related to the current economic conditions?
- Yes, (10% or more)
- Yes, (fewer than 10%)
- No
- No, but we believe layoffs could occur (10% or more)
Q3. Do you have a selection process for choosing which employees to eliminate?
- Performance reviews
- Identifying critical positions and cutting those that are not deemed as such
- Involving each manager to eliminate a certain number or percentage from his/her group
- Eliminating those most recently hired
- Eliminating those non-standard employees such as contract, part-time, contingent
- Other:
Q4. Is there a particular risk factor to your organizations bottom-line during a recession?
- Top performers leaving or being eliminated
- Low level of productivity by staff
- Lack of Leadership
- Company Brand being affected as a result of staff reductions
- Career Planning being harmed because of perception of this being overlooked
- Other:
Q5. Will there be workforce trends changed in 2009 within your organization? (Please choose all that apply)
- Flexible hours offered
- Virtual work available for more staff
- Increase in use of contingent and/or contract workers
- Early retirement consideration for current staff
- Other:
Q6. Choose which of the following practices you think will protect your bottom-line during this recessionary period (Please choose all that apply)
- Consideration of workforce strategy to coordinate company goals and staff goals
- Use performance management tools to identify top performers
- Create succession planning for retention of top performers
- Develop selective hiring practices to recruit top talent
- Other:
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