28 | BOOK OF LISTS 2020
Do you plan to hire additional
staff in 2020?
By what percentage do you expect your
employee base to grow in 2020?
Yes
No
Too soon to tell/I
don't know
Negative growth
No growth
0.1% to 5%
5.5% to 10%
10.5% or more
BANKING
& FINANCE
Hartford Business Journal readers are slightly more pessimistic about 2020, with only 33.3 percent predicting
Connecticut's economy will improve in the year ahead.
Last year, 37.8 percent of HBJ readers predicted the economy would improve in 2019.
Meantime, 43.2 percent of readers think Greater Hartford's economy is in better shape today than it was a year
ago.
Those were some of the major findings of Hartford Business Journal's 2020 economic outlook survey, the results
of which are featured throughout the rest of this publication.
The survey was emailed to more than 10,000 HBJ Today subscribers. The unscientific results were gathered over
a three-week period in November and garnered over 250 respondents. The survey provides a window into how
the region's economy will likely perform in 2020, and the results mirror some of the economic forecasts provided
by economists and business executives featured in this publication.
4.9%
8.98%
39.59% 39.59%
6.94%
41.3%
41.7%
17%
