Following the publication of Radford’s Q1 2019 Workforce Trends Report for life sciences companies, our team took a deep dive into hiring plans and turnover rates at US-based firms, segmenting the data by the pre-commercial and commercial stages of development. This quarter, the competition for talent has cooled slightly among pre-commercial firms, while commercial firms are adopting a more optimistic outlook, with a 10% increase in the amount of firms reporting aggressive hiring plans.