What Investors Should Know About a Company's Workforce

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• The perceived probability of finding a job in three months if one's current job was lost fell to 43.1%, the lowest reading since the survey began in 2013

  80% confidence

• Finding a good employer is like finding a spouse. It doesn't happen overnight. You have to kiss a lot of frogs

  80% confidence

• Average company lifespan in S&P 500 was 29.3 years in the 1970s and has been 18.3 years so far in the 2020s

  80% confidence

• Management standing on one foot is job reconfiguration

  80% confidence

• Many Americans are feeling the pinch because some everyday essentials, such as shelter, food, medical care, and energy, have experienced price increases above the rate of overall inflation

  80% confidence

• The ability to categorize job postings into skills and activities can uncover very large business shifts

  80% confidence

• 20% of the S&P 500 index constituents turn over every five years on average since 1985

  80% confidence

• Employee perception is the most underrated source of workforce data, as employees know a great deal about what's happening inside a company

  80% confidence

• Healthier people are wealthier and the other way around. The causes and effects go both ways

  80% confidence

• AI does not automate jobs wholesale. It automates components of jobs. It automates tasks, and then what firms need to do and workers need to do is reconfigure their workload to adapt to some parts of that workload being automated

  80% confidence

• Social Security trust fund could be depleted by 2032, resulting in 20-25% benefit cuts without a fix

  80% confidence

• In any given period, there are stocks driving the overall market higher, and often, many of these market leaders eventually stumble and underperform. But other stocks always emerge to take the baton and extend the market's very long trend higher

  80% confidence