A number of PR firms are reporting that clients are asking them to take a hiatus from full-time work as the country enters 2009 with a sense of trepidation.

The effect appears to be spread across verticals given the global impact of the financial slowdown that produced results like an expected 2-million-plus shedding of US jobs in 2008, and an 11-day work stop order in Japan at Toyota.
 
“You hear the same thing: ‘We still want you to ...