These companies account for 7.8 million employees in the U.S. The Index which surveys Fortune 1000 corporations and Am Law 100 is a joint initiative between American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD) and the U.S. Business Leadership Network (USBLN).
According to a survey of Fortune 250 directors.
A survey of Fortune 500 firms by KPMG, a consultancy, found that half had done nothing to prepare for this.
A 2008 Ernst & Young survey of Fortune 1,000 companies indicated that the average company spends about 4percentt of revenue on risk management activities.
In another recent survey of Fortune 1000 companies by the Cutter Consortium, a technology consulting firm, 56percentt of managers said they opposed telecommuting because workers needed regular supervision.
More than 90percentt of workers questioned in a survey by Fortune Personnel Consultants said they felt very loyal or somewhat loyal to their companies.
In a new PricewaterhouseCoopers survey of Fortune 1000 executives' attitudes toward sustainable development, one corporate vice president for environmental affairs called the concept "a pernicious fad".
During the summer of 2013, NewVantage Partners conducted a survey of Fortune 1000 C-suite executives from companies including American Express, CVS Caremark, JP Morgan, Johnson & Johnson, Kaiser Permanente, MetLife, Travelers and Wells Fargo, among others.
A survey by Fortune magazine found that only 4.2% of the partners of the 92 most successful firms are female.The dearth of female tech leadership is partly a question of supply.
A new survey of Fortune 1000 chief financial officers, treasurers and risk managers, for example, revealed that more than 50percentthinknk their companies are ill prepared for a major disruption caused by a natural disaster, fire, terrorism or sabotage.
