| Erin Edgemon: Area employers intend to maintain current staffing levels: survey |
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By: By ERIN EDGEMON, Business Editor
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Posted: Sunday, June 15, 2008 7:07 am
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Despite softening economic conditions, a majority of Middle Tennessee employers expect to maintain their current staff levels during the third quarter of 2008, according to a recent Manpower Employment Outlook Survey.
Fifty-three percent of employers surveyed by the employment agency expect to keep current staff levels through September. Another 27 percent of companies plan to hire more employees and only 7 percent expect to reduce their payrolls. Another 13 percent aren’t certain of hiring plans.
“Employer sentiment about hiring appears to be less encouraging than in the second quarter of 2008 when 33 percent of companies interviewed intended to add employees and 7 percent planned to reduce staff levels,” said David Patterson, Manpower spokesperson. “Hiring activity is expected to be slightly stronger than one year ago when 27 percent of companies surveyed planned to increase staff levels and 10 percent expected to cut payrolls.”
The job market is expected to be the best in durable good manufacturing, wholesale/retail trade, education and public administration. Employers in finance, insurance and real estate plan to reduce staffing levels.
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For ladies looking to get ready for the beach this summer, a full-service waxing salon should be open in the nick of time.
The Wax Strip, a full-body wax salon, is scheduled to open July 1 at 2943 S. Rutherford Blvd. near Mellow Mushroom, said owner Angel Charles.
Hours of operation will be Monday through Friday 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information, visit www.thewaxstrip.net or 931-607-0290.
Waxing services include eyebrows, legs, underarms, bikini line and Brazilian.
Charles got the idea to open her own waxing salon from her sister Joy Ochoa who owns two The Wax Strip salons in Georgia.
“I just like the way her store has run,” she said. (Waxing) is definitely in demand. People definitely want this. I wanted to bring that to the Murfreesboro area.”
Charles spent almost a year looking for the appropriate space for her business. She wanted a new space that would convey the professional and classy atmosphere she was striving for.
The location off Rutherford Boulevard will be a convenient location where college students, moms and businesswomen can stop in without getting into a traffic jam, she said.
For those who are a little sheepish when it comes to waxing, Charles said it is nothing to be afraid of.
“It is not as painful as you think it would be,” she said.
Erin Edgemon can be reached at 869-0812 and at eedgemon@murfreesboropost.com.
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