Bain & Company’s just-released Management Tools & Trends survey says that 59 percent of executives interviewed globally plan to downsize in 2009; this is unsurprisingly up from 2008. Just 37 percent said they did not downsize in 2008 nor plan to in 2009.
An overview:
- 71 percent think that government regulation of business will increase over the next five years.
77 percent of North American respondents think that this will be the case - 71 percent feel that the current downturn will change consumer behaviors for at least three years 70 percent are very concerned about meeting growth targets in 2009.
- 64 percent are planning for a downturn that will last at least …
