) February 17, 2009 -- More than half of employers currently practice strategic environmental management, a survey released today indicates.

“The Greening of HR Survey,” conducted by Buck Consultants, an ACS company and one of the world’s leading human resource and benefits consulting firms, finds that 54 percent of respondents incorporate environmental management into their business operations.

) October 10, 2008 -- Workplace wellness strategies are rapidly growing in popularity outside of North America – almost doubling in the past year – to a point where 40 percent of employers surveyed in Europe, Asia and Africa now offer these programs, a global survey released today indicates.

) March 12, 2009 -- In a survey released today by Buck Consultants, most companies report that they will not be delivering the same equity values to their executives in 2009 -- a consequence of decreasing stock prices resulting from the current economic downturn.

) February 9, 2009 -- RFID Journal, the world's leading media and events company focused on radio frequency identification, announced today that a survey of 100 end users and potential end users of RFID indicates most see the technology as a tool to help them cut costs now, as well as improve long-term efficiencies and gain a competitive advantage.

RFID Journal surveyed its readers to determine how the global recession will impact their businesses. Respondents hailed from North America, Central and South America, Europe, Asia, Australia and Africa. A whopping 70 percent of respondents said that in past recessions, their businesses benefited from investing in information and other technologies.

) September 25, 2008 -- Since its inception, Presidio Pay Advisors has developed various tools to help its consultants more efficiently and effectively design compensation structures for companies of all sizes. In response to growing requests from clients to provide hands-on compensation administration assistance, the San Francisco compensation consulting firm plans to release several proprietary diagnostic tools that are instrumental in helping clients identify issues and streamline in-house compensation analyses. The first tool to be released -- Salary GPS -- is a diagnostic model that determines an employee's pay position within a salary structure to help Human Resources professionals identify departmental and position-specific issues.

) December 2, 2008 -- PayScale, Inc, the world's largest database of individual employee compensation profiles, today released its third annual year-end tipping study.

The report comes at a time of grave economic news - with weakening wages and growing unemployment - and reinforces the fact that gratuities are crucial to the financial survival of millions of middle-class workers in the United States.

Six out of the top 10 professions relying most heavily on tips are in the restaurant and hospitality business, which is especially vulnerable to an economic downturn.

) October 7, 2008 – For the first time since HRmarketer.com began its series of buying trend reports, a majority of human resource executives say they turn to the Internet first when searching for HR-related products and services.

) December 16, 2008 -- Who are the top moneymakers in fashion? The big execs usually take home the lion's share in most fashion houses, and, not surprisingly, they have the highest satisfaction ratings in a poll of 2,600 fashion workers from public and private apparel companies. On the flip side, job satisfaction rates are seriously lagging among retail, e-commerce and store-level employees. Yet, respondents also recognized the importance of these frontline workers with sales topping the "most valued" list, according to the annual Equation Research survey commissioned by 24 Seven and Women's Wear Daily.

) May 6, 2009 -- Ira S Wolfe has a warning for leaders of multi-generational organizations: "if you're not using social media in your marketing, recruiting, and retention strategies, they may be working more like shotguns than lasers." Wolfe, President and founder of Success Performance Solutions, based his observations on a nationwide "Are you a Geek or a Geezer?" survey his firm completed May 1.

) May 21, 2009 -- Infohrm, the global leader in workforce planning, reporting and analytics solutions, today reported that workforce planning initiatives are increasingly driven by CEOs, CFOs, and Boards of Directors, according to attendees at the 2009 Infohrm Workforce Planning Summit.

) October 7, 2008 -- Companies that give their workers the option of telecommuting are benefiting from greater productivity, lower costs, more options for finding and retaining qualified staff, and improved employee health, according to a new survey released today by the Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA).

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) February 11, 2009 -- Pangea Media (http://www.pangeamedia.com), the leader in online quizzes and quiz technology, has released the results of its latest "Pangea Pulse," which tracked the attitudes and preferences of approximately 2000 of its tween and teen users towards relationships and Valentine's Day.

) November 22, 2008 -- While corporate layoffs and budget cutbacks plague today’s news, many human resources (HR) leaders are hesitant to make drastic changes to their talent or information technology (IT) investments until they can get a better sense of where the economy is headed, according to a recent survey conducted by the International Association for Human Resources Information Management (IHRIM).

“Many respondents are cautiously optimistic that the economy will begin recovering early next year," said Lynne Mealy, IHRIM president and CEO. “They don’t expect to make drastic changes until after the first 100 days of the new Washington administration.”

) October 8, 2008 -- A new survey has found that 83 percent of businesses believe their websites are failing to convert enough visitor traffic into actual sales or enquiries, report online consultancy Backbone IT Group.

In a poll of one hundred UK companies, only 15 percent expressed a high level of satisfaction with the amount of business being generated by their websites. Companies also feared that less than half of potential online sales were currently being achieved.

The survey, carried out by Backbone IT Group with assistance from Lancaster University, also highlights a lack of awareness in the wider business community of some of the more recent online marketing practices.

) September 16, 2008 -- The Asia Pacific lags behind some European countries in recruitment-based social networking, according to a survey conducted by Aquent, the leading global staffing firm specialising in marketing, communications and creative talent.

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The Aquent Orange Book 2008-2009, a salary survey and industry monitor of key Asia Pacific and European markets, revealed a minimal uptake of social networking websites in the Asia Pacific by candidates and employers for recruitment purposes.

) July 20, 2009 -- PayScale, Inc. today announced its 2009 Education and Salary Report. The research survey, which analyzes the company's database of over 17.5 million unique compensation profiles, provides a critical perspective on the relationship between college selection and both starting and mid-career salaries.

The numbers and trends in PayScale's survey are especially important, given the current rise in unemployment, the length and depth of the recession, and overall anxiety about the economy among consumers and companies.

) October 24, 2008 -- With less than two weeks to go before the presidential election and echoes of "Joe the Plumber" reverberating up and down the campaign trail, PayScale - which operates the world's largest database of individual employee compensation profiles - decided to crunch the salary numbers on behalf of millions of Joe the Plumber's middle-class counterparts.

The findings show that most Americans are trying to stay afloat in the same economic boat; and, like Joe the Plumber, "Regina the Registered Nurse," "Charlie the Certified Public Accountant," "Marion the Mechanical Engineer" and "Paulette the Pediatrician" all make less than $250,000 a year in total cash compensation (salary, bonus, commissions, overtime but not equity or stock payments).

) July 27, 2009 -- More than half of the respondents to a market sentiment survey conducted by www.TraderPlanet.com, an interactive social networking site for active traders and investors, remain neutral or bullish on the outlook for the stock market, despite the continued volatility in global markets over the last nine months.

More than four hundred www.TraderPlanet.com members who trade regularly participated in the survey, which measured feelings about stock performance, as well as their future concerns in light of both the weakened U.S. economy and the aftermath of October 2008's stock market crash. Results suggest that:

) December 18, 2008 -- Pangea Media, the leader in online quizzes and quiz technology, has released the results of its latest "Pangea Pulse," which tracked the attitudes and preferences of its tween and teen users towards their holiday spending habits.

In a recent Christmas Shopping survey conducted on Quibblo.com, tween and teen users were asked where they will shop for gifts this holiday. Fifty-nine percent responded that they plan to shop in-store rather than online, while 31 percent plan to buy gifts both online and in-stores. When asked how much they will spend on gifts, most (51 percent) said that they will spend under $100, while 30 percent plan to spend between $100 and $500.

) April 9, 2009 -- Total Rewards Software, Inc., the industry leader in on-demand total compensation statement software, has just released its most recent and timely Executive Overview Report -- Promoting Total Compensation During Economic Uncertainty to Retain and Recruit Employees.

This executive report leverages over 800 total compensation statement projects with some of the leading companies in North America over an 18-year period. It examines why employers should communicate total compensation to manage employee morale, the pros and cons of available methods, and best practices to maximize this concept to aid recruitment and retention efforts.

) October 5, 2009 -- Lower employee turnover and lower merit raises are the findings of annual salary, wage and benefits surveys by Effective Resources, Inc.

The salary survey -- held in coordination with the Tennessee SHRM State Council Inc., a Society for Human Resource Management affiliated council --covers data from 164 Tennessee and 167 Florida employer participants, representing more than 1.9 million employees.

) March 17, 2009 -- If the 2009 March Madness Men's NCAA Tournament scores were determined by typical graduate salary, Duke University would defeat Cornell University in the Championship Game. PayScale, Inc., the world's largest real time salary dataset, today unveiled its Second Annual Salary Madness in conjunction with the 2009 March Madness/NCAA Men's College Basketball Tournament.

PayScale analyzed the March Madness brackets by typical salaries of graduates from each participating institution. All salary data used in the 2009 PayScale Salary Madness is from the company's 16.5 million plus real-time salary dataset.

) July 1, 2009 -- ConsultNet, a leading technology and engineering staffing provider, announced today the release of the 2009 Technology Staffing Outlook, which includes a survey of Hiring Managers for IT- and engineering-related workers in four states - California, Colorado, Texas and Utah. The report reveals that despite the economic recession, Western companies are expecting stabilizing and increasing IT and Engineering department headcounts and budgets in the second half of 2009.

) February 11, 2009 -- Latin teens who watch movies and television shows online are in search for more than one thing - free content - according to the latest Linkidee Ltd. survey. Linkidee Ltd., which owns and operates Zeeng.com, a fast growing movie download website targeting "Latin teens" in Latin and North America, recently conducted a poll among its central users to better direct future development of the website and to determine which features may turn Zeeng users into Zeeng subscribers.

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) April 2, 2009 -- Uncertainty about cloud computing and an uptick in virtualization deployments are key trends in government IT, according to a survey administered at FOSE 2009 by ScienceLogic, a leading IT Operations Management provider. For the third year in a row, the survey asked federal government network engineers, systems administrators and IT managers about the challenges they face in 2009 and what technologies and IT projects are most important to them.

) October 13, 2008 -- It isn't surprising that half of the agency leaders surveyed stated their business was down or down significantly from last year and that new business was harder or a lot harder to obtain. Nor is it surprising that there were fewer new business opportunities and prospects were harder to reach. What seems to be revealing is the significant majority of these agencies are still relying heavily upon referrals and networking for new business and these traditional methods are not working.

) May 6, 2009 -- Pangea Media, a leader in online quizzes and quiz technology, and Ypulse, the leading media platform for youth media and marketing professionals, have released the results of a jointly developed survey which tracked television consumption and viewing preferences of almost 2,000 of Pangea Media's tween/teen users.

) September 8, 2009 -- Epocrates, Inc., a leading provider of decision support solutions, released survey results exploring challenges facing today's nurses and the increasing role of technology use in hospitals and clinics across the nation.

) July 14, 2009 -- Performics (http://www.performics.com), the performance marketing expert inside Publicis Groupe's VivaKi Nerve Center, today released its third month's consumer behavior findings from its "2009 Online Buyer Economic Trend Study."

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EmploymentCrossing, the leading job board in the US, agrees that the current job market is not doing any favors for either employers or employees.
''Yes, it is true that the job market has plunged into dire straits and that all employers, recruiters, and job seekers are having a tough time making ends meet,'' says A. Harrison Barnes, the CEO of EmploymentCrossing. ''EmploymentCrossing is trying its best to increase its job count and has succeeded to some extent in the past few weeks. The need of the hour is to accelerate that growth even more.''

) July 27, 2009 -- Techaisle's survey on current and potential purchase of notebooks with solid-state drives finds that 11 percent of SMBs across ten countries surveyed currently own at least one notebook that has a solid-state drive. The surveys were conducted in June in US, UK, Germany, Italy, Australia, China, India, Russia, Brazil and Turkey.

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) November 2, 2009 -- Most IT asset managers believe they are well prepared for 2010 trends, except for cloud computing and changes in software licensing, according to a survey by the International Association of Information Technology Asset Managers, Inc. (IAITAM).

) September 4, 2009 -- Your records manager is nervous. According to a survey conducted by Forrester Research (Nasdaq: FORR) in conjunction with ARMA International, very few records managers express high e-discovery confidence. Barely 20 percent of records management decision makers report they are "very confident" that, if challenged, their organization could demonstrate their electronically stored information (ESI) is accurate, accessible, and trustworthy.

) August 17, 2009 -- Nearly half of all Americans - 49 percent - say they know at least one person who has dated someone they met online, and the majority of that group actually know more than one person who has dated someone they met online.

The pervasiveness of online dating cuts across demographic lines, even reaching the oldest Internet users - with nearly one-third (31 percent) of Americans age 65+ saying they know someone who has dated a person they met online. Thirty-eight percent of retirees know someone.

) May 27, 2009 -- A majority of consumers plan to take a road trip this summer according to a study conducted by Harris Interactive® on behalf of Petrofix. Many adults who are taking a road trip report that gas is the number one expense they are budgeting for; 92 percent confess that it will be important to find the lowest-priced gas during their trip.

) March 20, 2009 -- Despite the current economic climate, the average annual salary for technology product managers continues to be above $100,000 for the second year in a row. But average bonuses are down slightly from last year's results.

Pragmatic Marketing's 2008-2009 Annual Product Management Survey (www.pragmaticmarketing.com/survey) shows a very slight increase in salary over 2007-2008 (from $100,259 to $100,341) but does show a small drop in average bonus (from $14,799 to $12,467).

More than 57 percent of Americans report being more fearful of crime due to the economic downturn, according to a survey by the National Crime Prevention Council (NCPC) and the Stewart and Partners research firm. (PRWeb Oct 1, 2009)

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More than 57 percent of Americans report being more fearful of crime due to the economic downturn, according to a survey by the National Crime Prevention Council (NCPC) and the Stewart and Partners research firm. (PRWeb Sep 30, 2009)

Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/09/prweb2971424.htm

) August 27, 2009 -- Encuentra24.com Real Estate and Classifieds listings Portal announced yesterday the result of its most recent economic poll, this time about the property purchase, sales and rental market in Panama.

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This poll was conducted by the marketing team of encuentra24.com who performed a phone interviewed to 50 professional real estate broker in Panama. The interviewed are actively dedicated real estate professionals in the Panama territory. Each had the opportunity to contribute their personal and commercial experiences in the subject of real estate.

) June 9, 2009 -- In an economic climate where graphic designers are often asked to produce more with fewer resources, a new survey by International Communications Research (ICR) shows that over 40 percent of designers are using more stock photography to lower costs in 2009 compared to last year.

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