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CFO Survey Shows Optimistic Job Market

A global business outlook survey conducted by Duke University shows companies are beginning to hire again.

Leoneda Inge:  The quarterly Duke University, CFO Magazine Survey paints a much rosier jobs picture than in the past several quarters.  John Graham is a Finance professor at Duke and director of the survey.   He says Chief Financial Officers are optimistic in 2012.

John Graham:  This is the most positive survey we’ve done since before the recession began.  So for the first time in several years, I would say, the overall outlook is good in the United States according to CFOs.

Hiring is expected to increase by two-point-one percent.  And Graham says wages are expected to rise by just under three-percent.  Close to 900 CFOs from public and private companies were questioned for the survey.

Leoneda Inge is the co-host of WUNC's "Due South." Leoneda has been a radio journalist for more than 30 years, spending most of her career at WUNC as the Race and Southern Culture reporter. Leoneda’s work includes stories of race, slavery, memory and monuments. She has won "Gracie" awards, an Alfred I. duPont Award and several awards from the Radio, Television, Digital News Association (RTDNA). In 2017, Leoneda was named "Journalist of Distinction" by the National Association of Black Journalists.
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