Robert Half, a major staffing company specializing in temporary professional placements, has shown negative year-over-year quarterly revenue growth for the first two quarters of 2023, the first such declines in 15-20 years outside of the COVID meltdown and 2008-2009 financial crisis, indicating companies are already pulling back on discretionary spending and optimization before permanent workforce rationalization.
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John LoderingEvidence Quote
“quarter over year over year quarterly Revenue growth has fallen off cliff it's it's negative uh for the first three quarters the first two quarters of this year the only times in the last uh 15 almost 20 years that I see in this chart was during the covid Meltdown and uh the 0809 [48:04]”
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