Ninty - five percent of
respondents said their business posts images, with links (85 percent) being the second most shared content type:
The global travel industry is divided on whether the wider sharing economy is having an effect on its business, with 47 % of trade
respondents saying their business was unaffected by the trend.
Fifty - two per cent of Alberta
respondents said their business dropped and as a result of the oil price collapse, many were forced to make unexpected cuts to staff.
About 49 percent of
respondents said business conditions are «normal,» while 36 percent said they are «bad» and 15 percent said they are «good.»
Not exact matches
Of the
respondents who are already
business owners and live in highly - developed economies, 78 percent
said they choose to launch their ventures because they saw opportunities, not because they were forced to by economic necessity.
Just two
respondents thought that London would retain its top status, while around half (54 percent) of those surveyed
said they didn't believe there would be any single
business center.
Two - thirds of
respondents said Canadian
businesses need to do more to make LGBT employees feel welcome, with 48 % believing their own employer needed to make an increased effort.
«A full 77 % of
respondents said they're still pleased to be running a small
business, holding steady from last quarter's results».
The one policy change that the
respondents said would support small
business was strengthening the economy, at 52.28 percent, followed by tax cuts at 19.35 percent.
Forty - two percent of
respondents said banks were not lending to their types of
business, and nearly half of companies
said they did not apply for bank loans because they did not think they would be approved.
A survey by the Harvard
Business Review found that 65 % of
respondents said meetings kept them from getting work done, and 71 %
said meetings were «unproductive and inefficient.»
For those that
said their
businesses would be affected, two - thirds of
respondents said it would be positive for hiring and wages if the law is declared unconstitutional.
«The Alberta Immigrant Nomination Program is very important to
businesses that wish to retain critical foreign workers,»
said one
respondent.
By 2018, 26 percent of
respondents expect their
business to still be largely where it is today and 8 percent
say their
business could potentially be closed down.
On the subject of regulation, 68 percent of
respondents to the TriNet survey
said Trump's proposals for relief would make it easier for their companies to do
business.
Twenty - seven percent of all small -
business owners
said they plan to pull back on spending, versus 19 percent in the retail trade, the lowest level of pullback among the five sectors for which there are enough
respondents to split out sector - level results.
Says Mitch Roschelle, partner and real estate advisory leader of PWC, about the top second - tier cities: «Survey
respondents told us that there are two key drivers that enable small
business success: lower cost of doing
business and access to skilled talent.»
First, the fact that in 2013, just 36 percent of
respondents said that unpredictability was a major hurdle to starting a
business.
In a poll conducted earlier this year among several hundred corporate members of the American Productivity & Quality Center (APQC), a nonprofit
business - research organization in Houston, more than half the
respondents (56.8 %)
said they worked in fully walled offices, while less than a quarter (21.4 %) claimed modular settings.
The majority of Millennial
respondents (69 percent)
say they only shop at
businesses that accept credit cards.
In a survey of 3,000 American and Canadian employees conducted by Staples
Business Advantage, more than half of the
respondents said they felt overworked.
Last Thursday, Poilievre began by citing a Canadian Federation of Independent
Business survey in which lots of
respondents said «this new Liberal tax increase will make it harder to create jobs and grow.
«Anyone can now put up a website and an online survey for almost no cost, and they can get
respondents in there somehow,»
says Marshall David Rice, an associate professor at York University's Schulich School of
Business.
When asked about the role that the local, national and global economy plays in their
business, 75 percent of
respondents said the local economy plays a significant role in their
business, while 59 percent
said the national economy plays a significant role.
According to a recent report by Harvard
Business Review, 71 percent of
respondents ranked employee engagement as very important to achieving overall organizational success, yet only 24 percent of
respondents said employees in their organizations are highly engaged.
About 40 % of the
respondents said the CEOs should have flown economy class on a commercial flight, while 30 %
said business class.
In answer to a separate question, 35 % of
respondents said they were depending on income from the sale of their
businesses to retire.
Asked how they «dream» of spending retirement (
respondents could pick multiple answers), 13 percent of workers told Transamerica they want to pursue an encore career, 12 percent
said continuing to work in the same field and 11 percent
said starting a
business.
«Over 98 % of
respondents admitted to using the same password for more than one of their
business accounts, and 86 %
said that they sometimes use the same password for their personal profiles as they do for their work profiles.»
Out of more than 750
respondents, 62 percent
said they wanted to start a
business but didn't know when it would be possible; and 17 percent had tried to start a company but were prevented by circumstances from doing so.
The environment of a collaborative workspace has proven to add a boost of inspiration to your
business — in fact, according to Deskmag's annual Global Coworking Survey, 71 % of
respondents described feeling more creative since joining a coworking space, and 62 %
said their work had improved.
These breaches are especially disheartening for
business because according to a recent survey of thousands of consumers by Centrify, a leading identity and access management company, 66 percent of
respondents said that they're likely to stop buying from a company that has been breached.
Almost 80 per cent of Western Australians have doubts about the mass media according to a recent study by the School of Marketing at Curtin
Business School.More than two - thirds (77 per cent) of
respondents said they had at some time heard or read a...
In the Gallup survey, diverse - owned small
businesses were more likely to respond that they have been declined for
business credit — about one in five African American, Asian, and Hispanic
business owners
said they faced a credit decline in the past (14 % of general market
respondents said they faced a decline).
Twitter was close behind with 89 percent of
respondents saying they use the platform for their
business.
Despite Facebook organic reach continuing to drop over the past year, the majority of
businesses are still actively using the platform: 46 % of
respondents said that their use of Facebook has stayed the same, with 26 %
saying they now share more content despite the drop in reach and 28 %
said they now post less.
Alberta is the most entrepreneurial province with 75 per cent of poll
respondents in that region
saying that they had thought of owning a
business.
Just over half of
respondents say they are worried their vendors don't understand their
business, and 44 %
say they are concerned about their vendors» availability.
In fact, 70 % of our
respondents in a recent poll
said they prefer to receive this type of email from local
businesses.
Nearly 70 % of
respondents in the semi-annual survey of the National Assn. of
Business Economics
said the Fed's program, known as quantitative easing, has been a success.
Twelve percent of
respondents said tax reform has already helped their
businesses, and 21 percent
said they expect it will benefit their
businesses in the future.
Not everything is looking up for travel trends: 12 % of
respondents to our
business - travel survey
said they will decrease spending in 2018 vs 2017, the second - highest year - over-year reduction since 2012
Despite the credit squeeze, more than 50 per cent of
respondents said they still plan to grow their
businesses over the coming 12 months.
Barclay's staff
said the survey
respondents included 84
businesses from Oswego County, nine from Onondaga County, one from Jefferson County and two located elsewhere.
In a December 2016 poll by the
business newspaper Nihon Keizai Shimbun, one - third of
respondents (the largest group)
said that Tepco should bear all costs and no additional charges should be added to electricity rates.
The challenge, Machanavajjhala
said, is to enable third parties to sift through the data to make discoveries about the
respondents as a group, while revealing as little as possible about any individual or
business in it.
Furthermore, 68 per cent of
respondents said that
business - at - the - speed - of - paper will be «unacceptable in just a few years time» and around half of organisations surveyed claimed that the biggest single productivity improvement would be to remove paper.
Audible captured the largest segment of verified audiobook purchased with 27.16 % of
respondents saying they did
business with them.
Despite the flood of new Tablets hitting the market, the Apple iPad remains the overwhelming choice of
business buyers going forward — with nearly four - in - five (78 %) corporate
respondents saying their company plans to purchase Apple iPads.
In fact, 96.9 %
respondents said small
business customer service usually thank them.