Month: February 2022

A new national survey finds deep public concern about the K-12 public school workforce. Eighty-three percent of Americans express concerns about public school staff shortages, while 81 percent are worried about workforce burnout. Most Americans (89 percent) say K-12 public school staff deserve more respect, and they indicate that better pay (92 percent), healthcare benefits…

But even with those measures, the district still asked students to spend the first week of January at home for remote learning, when infection rates were so high that some schools couldnt staff all their classrooms. Erin Bray, who works at an education nonprofit in Portland, Ore., is the mother of two young children whose…

Employees’ experiences in their daily life have important implications for health and wellbeing and follow them to work each day. No two workforces are alike — and it’s incumbent on leaders to discover where their employees are struggling and thriving when it comes to wellbeing and experiences with DEI. Upskill your managers, leaders and HR…

Black Americans in households earning under $36,000 per year are less likely to report they experienced significant worry or sadness the day before than are their White or Hispanic counterparts. Implications Household income has long been understood to have a positive relationship with various aspects of wellbeing, including life ratings and daily emotional experiences as…

Conducted by Dynata, the survey of more than 1,000 U.S. consumers also finds that 65 percent of consumers profess they love fewer than three brands, and an additional 9 percent claim not to “love” even a single brand.

If your financial situation suddenly changes, or feels out of control in some way, its tempting to rely more heavily on your credit cards or to skip a payment, says Matt Lattman, vice president of Discover Personal Loans.

Unsurprisingly with over half (51%) of Europeans now doing more exercise than before the pandemic and 60% preferring to work-out at home or outdoors than in a gym or leisure centre growth of the sporting goods sector significantly outpaced consumer spending overall in Europe.