Even with a four-year high in the hiring, manufacturing and service sectors, benefits managers are utilizing higher pay and improved benefits to deal with their ongoing recruitment challenges.
In August, about one-half of manufacturers and one-third of service-sector companies say they plan to add jobs. But when compared to one year ago, there are slight hiring rate increases for manufacturing (0.3%) and the service sector (0.7%), the Society for Human Resource Management states in a new report.
