Financial stress costs
employers $4.7 billion per week
Financial stress costs
employers $4.7 billion per week
HR is the secret success story of the pandemic
Companies and HR handled the pandemic well. 71% agree HR’s
job has been more challenging and 46% trust HR more.



Financial stress skyrocketed
65% of employees are stressed about their finances and are looking to employers for support.
State of employee finances
56% saved more, 53% decreased their emergency savings and 64% plan
to splurge post-pandemic. Financial literacy continues to be low.



Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
87% say their company handled Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DE&I)
issues well, but there is room for improvement.
Post pandemic, employees continue to look to employers for support.
Learn more about what employees want.
Disclosure: Assumes there are 94,257,000 knowledge workers in the U.S. with an hourly wage of $35.53. Source: Federal Reserve Economic Dataset. For more information, see the full report.
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