Something not right

I work nearby the payroll office and they are ordering an immense amount of stationery these days, boxes being delivered on a daily basis. I suspect that these are P45s. In that generally in accounts work part of your job is to analyse trends and variations year on year. Small variations 5-10% usually don't matter but anything bigger needs investigation.

I often phone them up and almost universally every client states that they are doing less trade much less trade, many are simply ticking over at idle just covering their expenses.

I wonder how long this can go on, I can feel that because our work load has been cut WE the accountants will soon be cut which is not good.