Focus Taiwan
Date: 2016/09/17
By: Frances Huang
Taipei, Sept. 17 (CNA) The hiring intention of Taiwanese employers for the fourth quarter of this year
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has improved, with a upswing reversing a five-quarter decline, according to U.S.-based human resources advisory firm ManpowerGroup.
Citing the latest Manpower Employment Outlook Survey, the advisory firm said that Taiwan’s net employment outlook for the fourth quarter stood at 21 percent, 2 percentage points higher than the previous quarter. But the fourth quarter figure still fell 13 percentage points from a year earlier amid an economic slowdown.
The poll, which reflects hiring confidence among employers, calculated the net employment outlook after seasonal adjustments by subtracting the percentage of employers anticipating a decline in total employment from the percentage expecting to see an increase.
ManpowerGroup said that 27 percent of 1,005 employers polled said that they intended to recruit more employees in the fourth quarter, while 5 percent of them said that they would cut their workforce during the October-December period. [FULL STORY]
