CEOs Grow More Optimistic About Hiring

New York, NY, June 23, 2010--A new survey by the Business Roundtable shows that the number of CEOs planning to increase hiring is at the highest level since mid-2007.

The Business Roundtable, an association of CEOs of big U.S. companies, says its survey shows 39% of chief executives expect to boost their payrolls in the second half of 2010.

Only 17% say jobs will drop, while 43% expect no change in their current workforce.

Despite renewed market fears of a hit to global growth because of economic trouble in Europe, 79% of CEOs say they expect sales to rise in the second half.