Percentage of employees who say their office is too hot, according to a survey by CareerBuilder: 25
Percentage of employees who say their office is too cold: 23
Percentage of employees who have argued with a co-worker about office temperature: 20
Percentage of employees who have secretly changed the temperature during the winter: 18
Source: CareerBuilder.com.
When asked to choose among big government, big labor and big business, percentage of Americans who named big government as the biggest threat to the country in the future, according to a Gallup Poll: 69
Percentage who named big business as the biggest threat: 25
Percentage who cited big labor: 6
Source: Gallup Organization.
Number of people treated in 2014 for injuries sustained while shovelling snow, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons: 203,000
Number of people injured using snow throwers or snowblowers in the same period: 27,000
Source: American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons.
Cost of most the expensive home in America, La Palais Royal in Hillsboro, Florida, according to information from TopTenRealEstateDeals.com: $159 million
Cost of second most expensive home, Palazzo di Amore, in Beverly Hills, California: $149 million
Cost of third most expensive home, Briar Patch, in East Hampton, New York, on Long Island: $140 million
Source: TopTenRealEstateDeals.com.
Ranks of Gatlinburg, Tennessee; Orange Beach, Alabama; and Destin, Florida, as the top U.S. destinations on the rise in 2016, according to TripAdvisor: 1, 2, 3
Ranks of Tulum, Mexico; Cartagena, Colombia; and Porto, Portugal, as the top international destinations on the rise in 2016, according to TripAdvisor: 1, 2, 3
Source: TripAdvisor.
Ranks of Samsung, Apple, Lenovo and Asus on the list of the most reliable computers, based on the percentage of service calls to 1-800-RESCUE-PC, according to RESCUECOM's 2015 Q3 Computer Reliability Report: 1, 2, 3, 4
Percentage of the market share held by Apple, compared to Samsung's 5 percent: 18
Source: RESCUECOM.
Percentage of people who plan to look for a new job in 2016, according to a survey by SKOUT: 55
Percentage of people who plan to exercise in 2016: 78
Source: SKOUT.
Percentage of human resource managers who found performance appraisals effective in improving employee performance, according to research from OfficeTeam: 43
Percentage of workers who found them effective: 37
Source: OfficeTeam.
Percentage of global oil and gas job seekers who were actively seeking a new job, regardless of whether they were currently employed or not, according to a survey by Rigzone: 97
Percentage who are not considering leaving the oil and gas industry: 66
Percentage of hiring managers who stated they will be hiring less than last quarter, due to the drop in oil prices: 49
Source: Rigzone.
Percentage of U.S. car owners who want connected activity built into their next car, according to research by Parks Associates: 64
Estimated number of U.S. vehicles that are connected to the Internet at the end of 2015: 40 million
Source: Parks Associates.
Idle Thought
"If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons." -- James Thurber, writer and cartoonist
(Readers can contact John MacIntyre at johnmacintyre@bwr.eastlink.ca.)