68% of Businesses Plan to Rehire Laid Off Staff within 6 Months
According to a new survey, close to 70 percent of organizations who have furloughed or laid off employees during the COVID-19 pandemic will back-fill roles that were eliminated (68%), even with hiring freezes (40%) being the most important cost saving initiative to organizations during the pandemic to-date. Nearly 9 in 10 of those saying they will backfill roles plan to do so in less than a year (87%) and 62 percent plan to do so in less than six months. During the COVID-19 p