From Deseret News archives:
Swedes trust IKEA more than church
Percentage of those employees who have used IM to send or receive content such as jokes, gossip, rumors and disparaging remarks: 24
Percentage of employers who have an IM policy in place: 31
Source: American Management Association
Percentage of Swedes who said they have "much or very much trust" in the IKEA furniture store company, according to the business weekly magazine Dagens Industri: 80
Percentage of Swedes who said they have "much or very much trust" in Volvo: 69
Percentage of Swedes who have "much or very much trust" in the Swedish church: 46
Source: Dagens Industri
Percentage of U.S. retail employees who say that being scheduled to work on a day they asked off negatively affects their job performance, according to a study conducted for Kronos Inc.: 43
Source: Kronos Inc.
Percentage of the adult U.S. population (age 18 and older) who are afflicted with anxiety disorders, according to the National Institute of Mental Health: 18.1
Estimated annual cost to the United States, according to "The Economic Burden of Anxiety Disorders," a study commissioned by the Anxiety Disorders Association of America and based on data gathered by the association and published in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry: $42 billion
Estimated annual total mental health bill for the United States: $148 billion
Source: ADAA
Percentage of recently promoted executives who said that their responsibilities have remained roughly the same despite their new titles, according to a survey: 46
Percentage who said that a bigger job title would not entice them to stay at a job that they would otherwise leave: 85
Source: Korn/Ferry International
Percentage of U.S. consumers who did not feel any safer computing online in 2006 compared to 2005, according to a survey: 84
Source: Check Point Software Technologies
Percentage of lawyers who ran
ked reliability and trust as the most important factors in winning repeat business from clients, according to a survey developed by Robert Half Legal: 45
Percentage who said their relationship with the client: 20
Percentage who said "industry-specific knowledge": 14
