CEOs Grow More Optimistic About Hiring

New York, NY, June 23, 2010–A new survey by the Business Roundtable shows that the number of CEOs planning to increase hiring is at the highest level since mid-2007.

The Business Roundtable, an association of CEOs of big U.S. companies, says its survey shows 39% of chief executives expect to boost their payrolls in the second half of 2010.

Only 17% say jobs will drop, while 43% expect no change in their current workforce.

Despite renewed market fears of a hit to global growth because of economic trouble in Europe, 79% of CEOs say they expect sales to rise in the second half.