This looks to be a year in which employers make a bit more money, give out a little more in paychecks to slightly larger staffs and continue trying to make their operations as efficient as possible.
That “cautiously optimistic” assessment of 2011’s economic prospects came from a survey by The Employers Council of Utah, which provides human-resource management assistance to about 550 companies in the Beehive State. Its findings were part of a larger report issued by the Employer Associations of America after surveying 2,800 organizations around the country. Salt Lake Tribune