CAREER HORIZONS RELEASES RESULTS OF SALARY AND EMPLOYMENT SURVEY.

WOODBURY, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--January 17, 1995--Career Horizons (NASDAQ: CARH) announced the results of its 1995 Salary and Employment Survey of hundreds of companies nationwide employing more than one million employees. The 36-page survey includes findings on economic forecasts, as well as salary information on 14 job classifications, benefits, recruiting and business trends.

12 MONTH ECONOMIC FORECASTS

Economic predictions suggest optimism. A full 43% of respondents predicted that in 1995, economic conditions in their industry will improve; only 13.8% forecasts a decline. Job market stabilizes. More than 41% expect employment in their industry to improve; 43% expect the number of jobs in their company to increase.

SALARIES

Pay raises decline. The average pay raise employers plan for '95 is 4.6%, compared to the 1994 increase of 5.1%.

BENEFITS

Dressing down gets thumbs up. Some 67% of the companies surveyed report that they allow employees to dress casually on certain days.

U.S. employees are entitled to 32 days off out of the available 260 work days during the first year of employment with a company. These benefits days include 10 vacation days, 8 holidays, 8 sick days, 3 personal days often used for religious observances and 3 days for miscellaneous reasons, such as bereavement and birthdays.

17% of U.S. companies give employees their birthday off.

"Family-Friendly" benefits decline. The number of companies offering both Child Care services and Elder Care assistance dropped. Child Care decreased from 5.6% in 1993 to 4.9% in 1994. Elder Care decreased from 4.6% in 1993 to 2.3% in 1994.

Is the "9 to 5" headed for extinction? Flexible schedules are offered by a full 49.4% of the respondents, while 25% have work-at-home situations.

Employers offer dental coverage almost three times more frequently than optical. While more than 60% provide employees with dental insurance, only 23% offer optical care coverage.

BUSINESS AND OFFICE TRENDS

A full 55.4% of companies do not permit smoking on the premises at all. Only 5.4% allow smoking in all areas.

One quarter of employers require drug testing for new hires. 11.7% require testing of current employees.

Some 37% of the respondents either have a Total Quality Management program in place or have plans for one.

RECRUITING

Skilled workers are hard to find. The availability of skilled workers was cited far more frequently than salary as the reason for difficulty in recruiting.

Only one out of three employers check educational references for new hires.

Special projects and peak periods account for more than half of all temporary assignments. When asked for the reasons that they use temporary employees, 29.8% reported the reason to be special projects and 21.9% reported the need was due to a peak period of business activity. "As the economy steadily improves, clients continue to rely on Workload Management as their permanent business strategy. We have formed partnerships with our clients that have proven to increase their productivity with significant cost savings," says Joel B. Miller, President and CEO of Career Horizons.

Career Horizons, Inc., is a national provider of supplemental personnel with 431 offices in 43 states and the District of Columbia.

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