RIGHTWORKS, a Hudson, NH-based accounting web host, found that 60% of accounting firms describe having lower technology maturity in a survey of nearly 500 such U.S. firms. That may indicate the accounting field is slower in benefitting from emerging tech like AI, collaboration tools and data-driven insights. Firms described as having higher adoption, however, showed as much as 39% higher revenue per employee.

ACCORDING to a recent survey by ResumeBuilder.com, most workers do not want to be fully remote, or at least 1,250 full-time employees over age 18 who were surveyed don’t. Of them, 40% preferred full in-person work while 32% favored hybrid work — with hybrid employees most often preferring three in-person workdays.

WALLETHUB’S new Small Business Survey of nearly 220 small business owners indicates that despite many of them being pessimistic about inflation declining (64%), more than 3 in 5 small business owners feel now is a good time for growth. However, the same rate of respondents said their business needs additional financing now more than it did 12 months ago.

THE Pew Research Center found that most Americans believe the nation’s K-12 STEM education to be average or below average compared to other wealthy nations in a recent survey, but research shows U.S. students are doing better than average. 2022 figures from the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) — taken by 15-year-old students in OECD member countries every three years — rank the U.S. 28th out of 37 OECD countries in math, and 12th out of 37 in science.

AS many as a fifth of American small business owners are undecided on who to support in this year’s presidential election as of late April, Goldman Sachs found. Just over half (55%) are dissatisfied with how candidates have approached small business issues like inflationary pressure, tax policy and regulatory burden.