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October 21, 2025
Employee sentiment weakened in October
The ADP Research Employee Motivation and Commitment Index, which tracks how people think and feel about their jobs, lost ground in October for the second month. Only three sectors showed improvement.
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October 9, 2025
Are teams getting bigger?
by Ben Hanowell
Despite recent talk of managerial staffing cuts, the average team size hasn’t grown much, even in tech.
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September 10, 2025
Bias in data
by Tim Decker
Bias is found wherever measurements are made and wherever people apply judgments. It’s an intrinsic part of the data landscape.
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September 9, 2025
The building trades: Five new facts
by Jeff Nezaj
When ADP Research examined five-year trends in demand, employment growth, pay, and demographics for the skilled builder trades, we came away with five important findings.
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February 13, 2025
LA wildfires: Lost hours and fewer paychecks
by Issi Romem, Ph.D. • Łukasz Below • Tim Decker • Liv Wang
As houses burned and businesses shuttered, the Palisades and Eaton fires also inflicted pain on workers.
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February 6, 2025
What’s in a name?
by Tim Decker
If it’s a job title, a lot. We built a tool that plumbs the deep reservoir of skills connected to thousands of job titles.
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December 5, 2024
(In)action
by Tim Decker
We tracked the month-to-month inactivity of the workforce, looking at the gaps between major events that keep HR professionals busy.
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November 14, 2024
High-paying jobs? They’re a dime a dozen
More than a million people in the United States earn $500,000 or more, and they might be closer to home than you think.
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