Research released by Michigan State University in October revealed that 37 percent of 5,700 employers
surveyed said they plan to increase salaries of entry - level workers 3 percent to 5 percent next year.
Case in point: Eighty - five percent of executives
surveyed said they plan to increase their organization's use of independent freelance workers over the next year.
More than half of 190,000 registered Houzz users recently
surveyed said they plan to tackle a remodeling project to increase the resale value of their homes, although most don't plan to move for at least five years.
With nearly half of
those surveyed saying they plan to back Brown, the mayor heads into today as the prohibitive favorite.
All told, employers in
the survey said they plan to hire 107,200 graduates this year, 70 percent of them at the bachelor's level.
«Nearly one in three» of the principals
surveyed said they planned to retire by 1992, and almost 56 percent said they would retire within 10 years, according to «The K - 8 Principal in 1988.»
Only half of
those surveyed said they plan to pay off their holiday - induced debt in three months or less.
The poll conducted in January by Vision Critical found 15 per cent of
those surveyed said they planned to add to their U.S. investments, while another 15 per cent were investing in emerging markets.
According to Leger Marketing, 24 % of Canadians
surveyed said they plan to carry debt into their retirement.
A full one third of
those surveyed said they plan to buy green versions of their gadgets in the next year.
One in five HR directors who took part in
the survey said they planned to reduce headcount, nearly a quarter plan to increase headcount, and the majority (56 %) plan to keep it the same.
DANB certificants are also committed to certification, with over 99 % of
those surveyed saying they plan to renew their certification and more than 98 % saying they'd encourage others to earn DANB certification.
Sixty - four percent of 265 REALTORS ® recently
surveyed say they plan to commit more time to social media, and 60 percent plan to commit more money to it too.
Showers are expanding with many of the more than 3,000 home owners recently
surveyed saying they plan to upgrade their master...
The Association of Foreign Investors in Real Estate says that although the recent turmoil in REITs and domestic capital markets has opened the gates of opportunity for investors outside the United States, only 42 percent of
those surveyed say they plan to increase investments in 1999.
Not exact matches
Since JetBlue announced
plans to rebrand in late 2014, the percentage of people polled who have
said they are positive about the JetBlue brand has fallen almost eight points, according to YouGov, a research firm that
surveys brand perceptions.
Thirty - five percent of the people
surveyed in the center's most recent study
said they
plan to start saving for retirement in their 20s.
Many of the 1,433 small business owners
surveyed expect to live well into their retirement years, with one in three
saying they
plan to retire older than 70.
To that point, 92 percent of the 3,500 - plus readers who had taken our
survey as of Dec. 4
said they would not roll over their 401 (k) funds into a company pension
plan.
But in a new
survey of 250 business owners by Bank of America's Merrill Lynch division, only 39 %
said they used an expert — like a management consultant, financial adviser or commercial banker — to develop a succession
plan.
Apps are now commonplace in the event
planning space, and according to a Guidebook
survey, 88 percent of event professionals utilizing them
say they've seen an increase in the vital metric of attendee satisfaction.
«Many business owners have not made important decisions [about succession
planning],» Keith Banks, president of U.S. Bank
said in a video conference to discuss the
survey findings.
And there's this interesting tidbit too: One quarter of business executives
surveyed said they are simply more effective communicating in their businesses than in their personal lives, which may factor into why so many have trouble communicating
plans for passing on their businesses to family members.
According to the GIIN
survey, more than a quarter of respondents were already tracking the results of their investments within the framework of the UN Sustainable Development Goals only a year after the goals were introduced, and another third
said they
planned to start doing so.
In fact, one man I
surveyed, who vetoed the idea of wearing the short suit to the office,
said he would consider wearing it to a wedding — something he was
planning to do over the weekend.
(The
survey polled 1,011 adults but focused on a subset of 219 who
said they
plan to visit Europe.)
In a
survey, 79 percent of companies
said they are either currently using or
plan to use social media, but many businesses are still uncertain of what to do with it.
A little more than a third of those
planning to travel report sporting a fanny pack or neck wallet «at all times» while vacationing, and 3.4 percent
say they have traveled with their own safety deposit box, according to the
survey.
But apparently, things will be brighter in 2017 when it comes to Windows 10 adoption, with Adaptiva
saying that 64 % of the
survey respondents
plan to move to to the new OS in the coming year.
Fewer than one - third of Americans
say they know what 529
Plans are, according to a recent
survey by financial services firm Edward Jones.
Indeed, 57 percent of business owners
plan to hire over the coming 12 months, the
survey says.
A recent
survey by the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta showed that 59 % of firms
said they would not increase their
planned hiring, while 39 %
said they would increase hiring somewhat or substantially.
The association conducted a
survey ahead of Ontario's minimum wage raise implementation and the vast majority of respondents
said they
planned to increase prices in some way.
The poll also found that 31 per cent of those
surveyed say they aren't
planning on putting away retirements savings at all this year, a jump from 28 per cent in 2012.
Among U.S. retirees in the Aegon
survey, 61 percent
said they retired sooner than
planned — and 31 percent did so due to poor health.
While 43 percent of U.S. workers in a 2013 Willis study
said they were
planning to push back their
planned retirement date, only 32 percent
said the same in the newest
survey, which could reflect the improving economy, Nyce
said.
Another compelling finding from the SurePayroll
survey: 21 percent of small business owners
say they
plan to seek loans in 2012, with banks as their primary source of obtaining extra capital.
In an online
survey of nearly 1,000 Canadians conducted last month, a majority of consumers
said they
planned to rely on their digital devices while shopping even more than they did last year, according to a report prepared by Tapped Mobile, App Promo and BrandSpark International.
Sure, 82 percent of the more than 1,000 small - business owners we
surveyed said they are
planning for growth this year.
To prepare for this shift in 3D printing, one that will see more companies using additive manufacturing, especially with metals, to manufacture end - use parts, companies are staffing up, training new workers, and buying more 3D printing machines, SDM's report shows that 73 % of the 700 respondents to SDM's
survey said their companies
plan to increase their in - house production of additively manufactured parts, a trend more pronounced in the aerospace and medical industries.
According to a recent Fidelity Investments
survey, 71 % of defined benefit
plan participants
said they do not have detailed knowledge of how the
plans operate.
Hotels and resorts are preparing to increase their spending on IT, according to a
survey by Hospitality Technology; 57 % of chief information officers
planned on increasing their IT spending in 2017, and 52 %
said digital customer engagement was their top strategic goal.
According to the
survey, 81 percent of small business owners
say they're
planning to invest in more technology in the year ahead.
In a recent Student Loan Hero
survey, 8 in 10 couples
planning to get married in the next year
said they would be willing to choose a «less - preferable wedding date» if it would save money.
Nearly a quarter of working Americans — 23 % —
say that they increased their retirement -
plan contributions this year compared to 2016, according to a recent
survey by financial website Bankrate.com.
In a recent HubSpot report, we found a staggering 56 % of
survey respondents
said they were doing content marketing without a
plan.
However, one
survey found that about half of retirees
said they retired earlier than
planned due to health problems, changes at their workplace, or other factors, suggesting that many workers may be overestimating their future retirement income and savings.
According to a
survey last month of 100,000 sellers on Facebook by commerce platform vendor Payvment, 39 percent of respondents report having used Facebook Ads, «making this the most prevalent marketing tactic used by sellers to drive traffic to their stores beyond general Facebook marketing — such as promotions and deals posted to their wall — and nearly 70 percent of respondents
say they
plan to use Facebook Ads again.»
«People keep
saying, «I'm not saving so I'll
plan on retiring much later,» but often times for reasons they can't control, people are not able to retire as late as they want,»
says Jack VanDerhei, EBRI's research director and co-author of the 2015 Retirement Confidence
Survey.
Speaking of overwhelming, saving for retirement, as you
said, is sort of a big challenge and the good news in the report and the
survey is that when people have a retirement
plan at work, they feel more confident, they feel more comfortable.