About one-fifth of metro Atlanta companies will be adding workers in the next months, according to a survey of the executives who manage the money.
Twenty-two percent of chief financial officers say their companies will be creating new jobs while 67 percent say they will hold personnel steady, filling only empty slots, according to the Atlanta Professional Employment Forecast from Robert Half.
The survey found 5 percent not planning to hire even to plug vacancies and 6 percent who said they would be cutting staff.
The local results are based on interviews with 100 CFOs from a random sample of companies with 20 or more employees, according to Robert Half.
More than 90 percent of the CFOs surveyed said they are optimistic about their business prospects. About half of those said they are “very confident.”
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