In a recent survey of 130 US life-science industry leaders with human capital responsibilities, it was found that 51% of those surveyed reported that hiring has become more difficult than before, with only 28% stating that they were confident that they would have access to top talent.
Only 6.4percentt of 5,000 households surveyed reported that business conditions were good.
A negative reading means that a higher percentage of the manufacturers surveyed reported that business had deteriorated than improved.
Only 18 of the 100 firms surveyed reported that their lawyers averaged that many hours or more in 1999, less than half the number seven years earlier.
Nearly 60percentt of employees we surveyed reported that not a single one of their four core needs was met at work.
Often, they find them: 32.1 percent of the companies surveyed reported that they had fired someone within the last year for breaking e-mail rules.
According to a recent poll by the National Association for Music Education, nearly half of the music teachers surveyed reported that "Glee" had increased interest in their offerings.
Noting that 5percentt of students surveyed reported that they often thought about committing suicide, he added: "Adults can change jobs, get divorced and pack up and move to Colorado, but kids have no place to go, and feel trapped.
FINAL TAKE Here is some information that may be of interest to marketers of frozen confections and linens, courtesy of AARP magazine: some 19percentt of Americans surveyed reported that they eat ice cream in bed.
Last year, 11percentt of high school students surveyed reported that they had used Ecstasy at least once, according to a survey of 50,000 students around the country conducted by University of Michigan researchers.
Forty-one percent of parents and baby sitters surveyed reported that their babies' doctors had not told them how to put the children down to sleep, say researchers for the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
