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March 25, 2025
Anchors aweigh
Stock markets are choppy, and a fog has descended on the economic outlook. That has business leaders and market watchers on the hunt for signs in the economic data to guide them. However, one of the most important drivers of the economy can’t easily be seen even when skies are clear: anchors. These are rules of thumb that, for better or worse, guide how people make decisions.
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March 7, 2024
Long-distance work and domestic offshoring
ADP data shows how long-distance working relationships are concentrating leadership in metro areas with expensive housing.
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November 8, 2023
The growing prevalence of cross-metropolitan work
Collaborating on work from different places is nothing new, but the normalization of remote work during the Covid-19 pandemic has helped take the phenomenon to a whole new level, a shift that ADP data is uniquely well positioned to study.
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May 23, 2023
Domestic offshoring: How housing costs are sorting work across U.S. cities
Economic and political power has historically been concentrated in a small number of command-and-control cities, which serve as nerve centers for business, ideas, and influence.
In recent decades, a growing regional divide between costly and affordable U.S. cities has been joined by technological innovations that make it easier for people in different places to collaborate.
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May 23, 2023
Domestic offshoring: A city-by-city analysis
Throughout history, economic and political power has concentrated in key cities, hubs of business, technology, ideas, and influence that thrive as command-and-control centers of the broader economy.
Now a transformation is underway.
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