UAE Retail Benchmarking Study 2009

UBI Global Names Embarc Collective Among the World’s Top Challengers in Annual Rankings of Business Incubators and Accelerators

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Wednesday, January 25, 2023

TAMPA, Fla., Jan. 25, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Embarc Collective, Florida’s fastest-growing startup hub, has been recognized as a global Top Challenger incubation program by UBI Global World Rankings 2021-2022 of Business Incubators and Accelerators. UBI Global, the Stockholm-based innovation intelligence company and community known for the assessment and mapping of business incubators and accelerators, released its benchmarks and rankings as assessed by the World Benchmark Study 2021-2022.

Key Points: 
  • TAMPA, Fla., Jan. 25, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Embarc Collective , Florida’s fastest-growing startup hub, has been recognized as a global Top Challenger incubation program by UBI Global World Rankings 2021-2022 of Business Incubators and Accelerators.
  • UBI Global , the Stockholm-based innovation intelligence company and community known for the assessment and mapping of business incubators and accelerators, released its benchmarks and rankings as assessed by the World Benchmark Study 2021-2022.
  • Achievement of Top Challenger status signifies that Embarc Collective has demonstrated outstanding impact and performance relative to other business incubators and accelerators.
  • For the full World Rankings Report 2021-2022 of business incubators and accelerators, please visit ubi-global.com/rankings/ .

Companies Regress in Managing Employee Issues With Declines in Process and Transparency vs. Pre-Pandemic Levels

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Wednesday, June 15, 2022

The pandemic derailed the employee relations priorities of companies as they worked to manage the ever-changing workplace.

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  • The pandemic derailed the employee relations priorities of companies as they worked to manage the ever-changing workplace.
  • Fewer than Half of Organizations Handle Employee Misconduct Using Structured Process, and One in Five Shares Outcomes with Employees
    Critical processes for managing employee issues took a turn for the worse.
  • Overall, companies have also stalled on allocating additional employee relations resources despite a broadening scope of responsibilities since 2019.
  • Introduced in 2016, the Employee Relations Benchmark Study is the only source for information from employee relations leaders at organizations.

Pivot Releases 2022 Benchmark Study - “Attitudes Toward Tobacco Use in the Workplace”

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Tuesday, February 1, 2022

Pivot , a digital health company that empowers individuals to embrace wellness and enables corporations and health plans to improve their population's health, today released its 2022 Attitudes Toward Tobacco Use in the Workplace research report.

Key Points: 
  • Pivot , a digital health company that empowers individuals to embrace wellness and enables corporations and health plans to improve their population's health, today released its 2022 Attitudes Toward Tobacco Use in the Workplace research report.
  • All participants worked in one of five industries with relatively high tobacco prevalence - construction, hospitality, manufacturing, retail, or transportation.
  • Tobacco use is on the rise, driven by the explosion in use of vaporized nicotine (aka vape), COVID-19, and the associated increased incidence in mental health disorders.
  • In this report, 56% of employees who use cigarettes also use vape, 20% use all three forms of tobacco (cigarettes, vape, smokeless), and 96% use tobacco while at work.