One year ago the Mercer organization conducted a survey of 400 organization to discover what each of them were planning to do with staffing level.  The pie chart below indicates the result of that survey as of May 2008. Interestingly enough, based on what we are seeing in our client base, these numbers still seem to be holding fairly true. Each of these situations require a different approach to your human resources strategic plan. We provide HR best practices for our clients to help them plan for each of these scenarios. We help them prepare for downsizing as well as how to recruit the best talent to their organizations. We know that our clients have a business to run.