Ireland hits bottom of latest global survey on future employment outlook

IRELAND has the weakest employment outlook in a global survey of 27 countries with just one in 12 companies expecting to hire in the first quarter of 2008.

This compares with one in four that expected to hire in the corresponding quarter a year ago.

The latest Manpower employment outlook survey also showed that for the first time Ireland has fallen to the bottom of the global outlook table with a 4% recording — the lowest ever figure recorded by Ireland since the survey began in 2002.