Semper Survey Finds Rebound in Industry Outlook, Willingness to Hire

• Print buyers place the greatest pricing pressure on offset printing (47 percent), but the pressure has eased somewhat from last quarter. Material cost pressures jumped 4 percentage points.

• Referrals (37 percent) and online searches (33 percent) seem to be the most popular ways to find employees. These methods continue to put pressure on traditional help wanted advertising, which continued its downward trend, dropping another 4 percentage points.