Sentences with phrase «although business surveys»

Conditions in the business sector generally remain favourable, although business surveys report some easing in conditions since around the start of the year (Graph 30).

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Additionally, the survey explained that although companies believe Windows 10 is high - quality software, internal business software compatibility «remain (s) as large barriers to Windows 10 deployment.»
Although women have historically run behind men in business, they're upbeat about women's future as owners or workers, according to a survey released last week by Bank of America.
HOUSTON --(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Although small business owners are slowly proceeding with growth plans in 2011, 40 percent are now delaying their expectations of an economic rebound to the first quarter of 2012 or later, according to the most recent Business Confidence Survey released today by Insperity, Inc. (NYSE: NSP), a leading provider of human resources and business performance solutions to America's best busBUSINESS WIRE)-- Although small business owners are slowly proceeding with growth plans in 2011, 40 percent are now delaying their expectations of an economic rebound to the first quarter of 2012 or later, according to the most recent Business Confidence Survey released today by Insperity, Inc. (NYSE: NSP), a leading provider of human resources and business performance solutions to America's best busbusiness owners are slowly proceeding with growth plans in 2011, 40 percent are now delaying their expectations of an economic rebound to the first quarter of 2012 or later, according to the most recent Business Confidence Survey released today by Insperity, Inc. (NYSE: NSP), a leading provider of human resources and business performance solutions to America's best busBusiness Confidence Survey released today by Insperity, Inc. (NYSE: NSP), a leading provider of human resources and business performance solutions to America's best busbusiness performance solutions to America's best businesses.
The NAB survey reports that the overall proportion of business respondents citing the availability of suitable labour as a constraint on current output and profitability has been increasing, although the survey still places labour availability well behind other constraining factors.
At the same time, most surveys find that businesses are intending to increase their employment further, and that some businesses are already reporting increased difficulty finding suitable labour, although this does not appear to have been reflected in wage expectations at an aggregate level.
More perplexing is that the average of six regional business surveys showed solid gains last month, although they too were mostly hit by the bad weather.
Business surveys continue to indicate that firms are planning only moderate price rises in the near term, although surveys conducted during the September quarter confirm that the downward trend in business price expectations, evident for some years, has nowBusiness surveys continue to indicate that firms are planning only moderate price rises in the near term, although surveys conducted during the September quarter confirm that the downward trend in business price expectations, evident for some years, has nowbusiness price expectations, evident for some years, has now halted.
The NAB survey suggests that business confidence remains above average, although it declined in the December quarter.
Within the total, expectations in the manufacturing sector have been revised upward, although this was from a low level and, as noted above, the manufacturing - based business surveys continue to give a very pessimistic reading.
Although social media has become an integral part of business, the majority of small businesses feel like it's a waste of time, according to a survey released April 16 by Manta, USA Today reports.
The latest NAB business survey shows total labour costs increasing at close to their fastest pace of the past five years, although still considerably slower than in the mid 1990s.
The Olympian, March 17, 2009 Local confidence drops, surveys find: Consumers, business owners hope for economic rebound by Rolf Boone «Thurston County residents and business owners largely were pessimistic about the economy in the fourth quarter of 2008, although both groups remain hopeful that business conditions will improve in the next six months, two new surveys have found.»
Most participants work in the natural, medical, environmental, social, and computer sciences, and engineering, although scholars in the arts, humanities, and business were also surveyed.
Even the generally conservative (when it comes to sexual politics or postcolonial consciousness) Pompidou (Paris) put on its one survey show of women, «Elles» in 2012, although it is hard to see this as anything other than tokenism when feminism is side - lined from «business as usual» rather than integrated centrally into ongoing institutional strategy and policy.
Although commercial real estate markets showed signs of recovery in 2011, commercial lending standards have tightened in the past year for small businesses and scuttled a major portion of contracted transactions for smaller properties, according to the National Association of Realtors ® annual Commercial Real Estate 2012 Lending Survey.
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