This grim outlook comes from a new survey of comms directors by PRWeek and Brands2Life.
Further, 11 per cent of comms bosses interviewed in the survey revealed they had already been asked to trim their in-house teams.
However, the results also offered some rays of hope for the industry. Just under a quarter of comms directors said they had come to rely more on their agencies' input in recent times, and nearly three-quarters said company leaders now took PR seriously and understood what it could do for a company.
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