The study also found that, overall, 31 per
cent of respondents planned to invest more in their business this year.
64 per
cent of respondents plan to spend more on corporate travel in 2018; this is consistent with the upward trend seen in previous years
67 per
cent of respondents planning to visit London.
30 per
cent of respondents planning to visit the South West.
Not exact matches
Either way, when it comes to retirement, current and retired employees want more help with retirement
planning (82 per
cent of all
respondents) and retirement coaching (84 per
cent), found the survey by Accenture.
Conversely, more
respondents plan on sending the same number
of employees to conferences in 2018 (88 per
cent); this is a marked increase over the 24 per
cent who gave a similar response in 2015
The Home Office
plans unveiled last week enjoyed very little support with only eight per
cent of respondents saying they supported the measure.
Despite the credit squeeze, more than 50 per
cent of respondents said they still
plan to grow their businesses over the coming 12 months.
64 per
cent of respondents thought David Cameron was «right to refuse to sign up to the EU's migrant - sharing
plan».
And only a third
of respondents (34 per
cent) approved
of Yvette Cooper's
plan «for each town to take in ten refugee families.»
In the survey carried out by the e-Learning Foundation, 29 per
cent of the 500
respondents who do not run any form
of home access programme said they
planned to use some
of their Pupil Premium funds to address 1:1 access, while that number increased to 51 per
cent amongst schools already running a programme.
Only four per
cent of secondary
respondents to the BESA survey stated that they did not
plan to make use
of a learning platform in the future.
Thirty per
cent of survey
respondents found applying to university difficult, 40 % report receiving little support from their school in
planning their application, and 38 % say they felt intimidated when applying for university — highlighting the value
of supporting young people during the process.
The ballot also discovered that: 96 per
cent of respondents lacked confidence in proposed Scottish Qualification Authority (SQA) measures to reduce workload in the 2016 - 17 session; 94 per
cent of respondents said they lacked confidence in the SQA's
plans to reduce workload; and the Tackling Bureaucracy Report, a Scottish government initiative from March 2015, had failed to reduce teachers» workload in 96 per
cent of schools.
Additionally,
respondents were critical
of the evidence for the government's new eduction
plans, as 81 per
cent said they believed there is no evidence for opening grammar schools and 79 per
cent believed there is no evidence for increasing selection in education.
The results
of the Department for Education's consultation on «Implementing the English Baccalaureate», released today, show that 71 per
cent of respondents — who include parents, school leaders and teachers — are worried about how schools will keep the curriculum broad as they
plan for increasing EBacc take - up.
A consultation by the regulator found that 96 per
cent of respondents agreed with the
plans and the regulator has today formalised the proposals.
Eighty - four per
cent of Canadian
respondents holding cash said they
plan to maintain or increase their cash holdings over the next year.
However, the poll also found that roughly 34 per
cent of respondents said they either didn't have the money to take advantage
of the new $ 10,000 limit or had other investment
plans.
«In a survey
of its members conducted by SMART, 40 per
cent of respondents said they have been forced to reduce their staffing levels by one - quarter or more and expect that number to increase to half if the ban goes into effect as
planned in 2019.»
Only eight per
cent of respondents, however, provide a pension
plan.
Indicative, too,
of the somewhat mercurial state
of the profession, the survey shows only 45 per
cent of law firm
respondents plan to increase their associates» salaries in 2013, whereas 77 per
cent of corporate legal departments say they will bump up their lawyers» earnings.
In a modest increase over last year's 42 per
cent, 45 per
cent of respondents are
planning to raise their prices and only 0.6 per
cent plan to lower them.
Our
respondents also struck an optimistic tone when it comes to hiring
plans, with 42 per
cent planning to increase their lawyer count by the end
of 2016, up from 24 per
cent at the same time last year, while just over six per
cent of firms predict a downsizing.
Almost 10 per
cent also said they sponsor a pension
plan, compared with a negligible number
of respondents last year, and around four per
cent of firms in 2014.
In this year's Legal Fees Survey, 52 per
cent of respondents say they
plan to raise their fees in the year ahead.
An Indigenous Engagement Survey conducted by the Business Council
of Australia (BCA) in 2014 revealed that almost 70 per
cent of respondent companies had Indigenous employment strategies and most
respondents also indicated they
planned to recruit Indigenous employees in 2015.
The vast majority (85 per
cent)
of Canadian
respondents who indicated acquisition
plans intend to focus on the domestic market, especially in locations such as Toronto (27.8 per
cent), Vancouver and Montreal (16.7 per
cent each), Edmonton and Calgary (14.8 per
cent and 11.1 per
cent respectively).
Thirty per
cent of respondents who are not
planning to purchase a property within the next year say the fear
of paying a higher price than the market value has influenced their decision to purchase a home to a great extent (12 per
cent) or some extent (18 per
cent).