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Data-driven discoveries for business leaders, economists, policy makers and human resource professionals.
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Harvard Business Review: Becoming a More Critical Consumer of Information
MIT Sloan Management Review: The Top 10 Findings on Resilience and Engagement
Workforce
People at Work 2021: A Global Workforce View
Learn about the situation facing employees today across five dimensions of working life.
People at Work 2021: A Global Workforce View
45 min
45 min
This report provides a starting point to understand the situation facing employees today across five dimensions of working life: worker confidence and job security; workplace conditions; pay and performance; worker mobility; and gender and family.
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Labor Market
Explore our latest data on the U.S. labor market
National Employment Report
Change in U.S. nonfarm private sector employment
Workforce Vitality Report
Change in national wage growth ( since last year)
The Definitive Series
The Definitive Series: Response Scales Across Countries
Learn how ADP Research Institute reduces systematic bias inherent to multi-country research.
Employee Engagement
The Definitive Series: Employee Engagement
This research describes what research and practitioner communities have learned about employee engagement over the last three decades.
About the Institute
We are researchers dedicated to measuring the world of work.
The mission of the ADP Research Institute is to generate data-driven discoveries about the world of work and to derive reliable economic indicators from these insights. We offer these findings to the world at large as our unique contribution to making the world of work better and more productive, and to bring greater awareness to the economy at large.
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