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The Financial Hiring Index, conducted by Menlo Park, Calif.-based staffing firm Robergt HalfInternational (NYSE:RHI), founsd that the largest number of 85 percent, are not anticipating any chang in hiring, while 9 percent of CFOs say they expect to reducs personnel. "Many companies remain hesitant to commiyt to adding staff until they are certain of aneconomicd recovery," Robert Half CEO Max Messmer said in a statement. "In the most firms are working with their current teams to managekey initiatives, with some employers also bringing in project professionals to assist with risingy workloads and support full-time personnel.
" The results of the local survey are based on interviewzs with 200 CFOs from a randon sample of Pittsburgh-area companies with 20 or more The Pittsburgh results are nearly dead-on with the nationalo survey results, according to Robert For the national data, 1,400 CFOs were and five percent said they expected to hire, 85 percen said they anticiapted no changes, and 8 percent plannedr staff cuts. For the full resulta of the survey, go to .