With all consolidation that's happening in the industry - I would not be surprised if we get hit by layoffs too. ES has been doing good for some time but now with governments cutting budgets, issues in Europe, global economy suffering, the labor market will start to feel it too. We are not immune. Have you seen what happened with Walgreen's the other day - it's like the biggest merger ever - do you think they will not be laying off folks? Now things are being consolidated, redundancies eliminated, so you can expect that things will get ugly for the worker. I work in the IT department, and I would totally expect that at least 50% of folks here get a boot sometimes in next five years. You can see jobs being sent offshore, so India is the place where the jobs will go, the USA is the place that will lose jobs. Not good, not good...
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50%, are you nuts? Things would stop immediately.