Many people are asking me these days, “Are you seeing signs that business is improving?”  Initially, I thought I was being asked about our business in particular.  Upon further review, I realized the inquiries were about whether we’re getting busier because our customers are getting busier. And if our customers get busy, then the world is a better place. These are the advantages of being on the “front lines” of the economy. When you cater to a diversity of companies, everything that makes them “busy” makes us busy as well. After all, they need people to get their work done. We provide the people needed and they are going to hire our people first before they do the hiring on their own.

So here we sit on the “front lines” of this war with a down economy. The view from here is not necessarily a pretty one. Basically we are holding our own. Not giving any ground, but not taking any either. The companies that are busy are busy producing items that aren’t affected by this downturn anyway – food, household cleaning items, etc. So far it’s pretty much still a draw.

We’ll keep you posted though. It’s tough in the trenches but this is where we feel at home. This is where the real work gets done.