{"id":3320,"date":"2018-02-20T14:00:49","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T14:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/?p=3320"},"modified":"2018-02-19T13:26:33","modified_gmt":"2018-02-19T13:26:33","slug":"people-are-feeling-pretty-good-about-business-in-2018-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/people-are-feeling-pretty-good-about-business-in-2018-so-far\/","title":{"rendered":"People Are Feeling Pretty Good About Business in 2018 So Far"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stocks have been up and down, but most people still are feeling pretty positive about the\u00a0health\u00a0of their company.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0latest reading\u00a0<\/a>of an ongoing query by\u00a0Comparably<\/a>\u00a0shows that 59% of people say their business outlook is either “fantastic” or “good” for 2018. Another 24% say their future outlook is “average,” while 17% say their outlook is “poor” (11%) or “awful” (6%).<\/p>\n

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Women and men in step<\/b><\/p>\n

Men and women share nearly identical outlooks for their companies, with about a third saying they feel good about what’s to come.<\/p>\n

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African Americans not impressed<\/b><\/p>\n

From an ethnicity perspective, African Americans were the group least happy with the outlook for their business:\u00a022% say they see it being “poor” or “terrible,” and another 27% say it will be “average.” Fifty-one percent say “fantastic” or “good.”\"AA\"<\/p>\n

Caucasians were most optimistic: 15% say the business outlook will be “awful” or “poor,” 23% say “average,” and 62% say “fantastic” or “good.”<\/p>\n

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Looking at it by age<\/b><\/p>\n

Of all workers, those 46 to 50 were most optimistic about business outlook in 2018: 58% say their outlook is “fantastic” or “good” (fantastic was the\u00a0No. 1 answer for them,\u00a0with 36% of the vote).<\/p>\n

46 to 50<\/p>\n

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More than 1,000 people across the tech industry responded to the query. The figures are as of Feb. 20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Stocks have been up and down, but most people still are feeling pretty positive about the\u00a0health\u00a0of their company. The\u00a0latest reading\u00a0of an ongoing query by\u00a0Comparably\u00a0shows that 59% of people say their business outlook is either “fantastic” or “good” for 2018. Another 24% say their future outlook is “average,” while 17% say their outlook is “poor” (11%) … Read full-story <\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":3330,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,3],"tags":[128],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3320"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3320"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3331,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3320\/revisions\/3331"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}