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HBR: What Really Makes Us Resilient?

What is this thing called resilience, and how can each of us cultivate it in our own lives? Read Marcus Buckingham’s unexpected finding from the Global Workplace Study in this article from Harvard Business Review.
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MIT Sloan Management Review: The Top 10 Findings on Resilience and Engagement

From the ADP Research Institute, the 10 most intriguing discoveries from a global study of resilience and engagement.
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Workforce

People at Work 2021: A Global Workforce View

Learn about the situation facing employees today across five dimensions of working life.

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People at Work 2021: A Global Workforce View

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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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Summary of People at Work 2021: A Global Workforce View

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One year into the pandemic: How working conditions and attitudes have changed

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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

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Workforce Vitality Report

Change in national wage growth ( since last year)

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The Definitive Series

The Definitive Series: Response Scales Across Countries

Learn how ADP Research Institute reduces systematic bias inherent to multi-country research.

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The Definitive Series: Response Scales Across Countries

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The Definitive Series: Response Scales Across Countries

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Cross-Country Response Scales Standardization Approach

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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.

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The Definitive Series: Employee Engagement

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Top 10 Conclusions: The Definitive Series on Employee Engagement

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Engagement is Closely Linked to Sales Performance

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Slides: Everything You Need to Know About Employee Engagement Webcast

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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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