Swedes trust IKEA more than church

Published: Sunday, Jan. 28, 2007 12:02 a.m. MST
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Percentage of employees who use instant messaging (IM) at work, according to a survey conducted by the American Management Association and ePolicy Institute: 35

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

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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

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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

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Source: Kronos Inc.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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