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Small Business Closure Scenarios

Small Business Labs

Based on an industry by industry analysis (1), our base case estimate is 21% of U.S.    By way of comparison, the SBA chart below shows small business closure and startup rates between 1990-2015.      Notes: (1) Our analysis looked at industry level historical closure rates (see the U.S.

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All work and some play: the rise of the ‘Bleisure’ travellers

Practically Perfect PA

There’s also something particularly poignant about sitting down to a table set for one in an unfamiliar restaurant amid the sound of strange accents and clinking glasses. We haven’t calculated our travel stat for 2016 as yet, but in 2015 Steve was on the road 171 days to 44 cities in 11 countries,’ she said. ‘I

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From the archive: The role of workplace design in employee engagement

Workplace Insight

Analysis of the data identified a pattern indicating that the country where employees live, its culture and the resulting expectations have an impact on how highly engaged and satisfied they are with their workplace.