Chained to the Desk/Headhunters Going Hungry

Australian Financial Review, 3 August 2001 p1, ,p3

As tougher economic times limit the opportunities to change jobs, increasing numbers of employees feel trapped. But when it comes to considering a new job, risk taking is out and caution is in.

"People are clinging to the corporate raft if that is what is going to get them through the stormy seas, which rightly or wrongly they perceive surrounding them", Mr Andrew Horsley, director of executive search consultancy Horsley & Company said:

However, Mr Horsley said many professionals would be well positioned to take advantage of job moves when the economy picked up.