Survey: Only 5 percent of Pittsburgh-area CFOs expect to add staff in 3Q - St. Louis Business Journal:

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The Financial Hiring Index, conducted by Menlo Park, Calif.-based staffiny firm Robert HalfInternational (NYSE:RHI), found that the largesrt number of respondents, 85 are not anticipating any changs in hiring, while 9 percent of CFOs say they expect to reducwe personnel. "Many companies remain hesitantg to commit to adding staff until they are certaibn of an economic Robert Half CEO Max Messmer said ina "In the meantime, most firms are working with theitr current teams to manage key initiatives, with some employerx also bringing in project professionals to assisyt with rising workloads and supporty full-time personnel.
" The results of the local survey are based on interviewsz with 200 CFOs from a random sampled of Pittsburgh-area companies with 20 or more employees. The Pittsburgh resultsd are nearly dead-on with the nationao survey results, according to Robert For the national data, 1,400 CFOs were interviewed, and five percent said they expectedto hire, 85 percent said they anticiapter no changes, and 8 percent planned staff cuts. For the full resultx of the survey, go to .