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Employee sentiment rose in September

The Employee Motivation and Commitment Index, which tracks how people think and feel about their jobs, rose 23 points in September, sending the index to a near-record high.

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For nearly a decade, ADPRI has been collecting granular data on individual workers from a stratified random sample of people worldwide. In surveys of more than 490,000 workers in 29 countries, respondents have shared their feelings about their jobs, their colleagues, their organizations, their pay, their leaders, and many other workplace issues.

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Employee sentiment rose in September

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The growing prevalence of cross-metropolitan work

Gender differences in the EMC Index

An industry dive into the EMC Index

EMC Index rose in October

Measuring employee success in more ways than one

Today at Work: Promotion impact analysis

How ADPRI constructed the Employee Motivation and Commitment Index

HR: How much is too much — or too little?

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