Q&A asks PE readers their views on: workload prospects during recession.

The article presents the Professional Engineering (PE) quarterly survey regarding workload prospects of engineers during recession in Great Britain. According to respondents, the biggest threat to the future prosperity of engineering is the media and obsessive reporting of bad news. Two graphs depicting the workload of engineers in the previous three months and the workload they expect to be doing in the next three months from the first quarter 2006 to first quarter 2009 are discussed.