FIGURE 20: New hire background.
involving tax expertise, especially among new hires. In our previous survey, for example, the majority roles that emphasized tax expertise. In this year's survey, the script flipped dramatically. Overall, 38% of respondents to this year's survey said their departments were hiring for tech or IT roles, whole story, however, because respondents from smaller companies (those with less than $1 billion in revenue) basically said they were no longer interested in hiring for tech and IT roles, and that 100% of their new hires are going to be in tax. That's right, 100%.