Following the publication of Radford’s Q2 2019 Workforce Trends Report for life sciences companies, our team took a deep dive into hiring plans and turnover rates at U.S.-based firms, segmenting the data by the pre-commercial and commercial stages of development. This quarter, companies in the pre-commercial space are reporting slight increases in aggressive hiring. Commercial firms, however, are more cautious about headcount growth, reporting plans to scale back aggressive hiring plans by 8% in Q2.