| This Month's Question |
| What is most important in a job: pay, benefits, job security or working conditions? |
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| Background on This Month's Question |
| Each year around Labor Day, we ask visitors what is most important to them about a job. While everyone would like all of the above, workers usually must make choices. They may trade higher pay for a job that is particularly interesting, has good management or involves collegial co-workers. Benefits may be important because of family health issues or a desire for security. While mobility often is high in the construction industry, some people prefer stability and security, especially in the current recession. What do you find most important in a job? |
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| What is most important in a job: pay, benefits, job security or working conditions? |
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| Results of Previous Surveys |
| March 2004 - April 2004 |
| Are rising steel prices causing claims or disputes on your projects? |
| Yes: 73 / 79% |
| No: 19 / 20% |
| Total Votes Cast: 92 |
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| April 2004 - May 2004 |
| Have you had good experiences with Web-based project management tools? |
| Good results: 12 / 29% |
| Bad results: 4 / 9% |
| Mixed results: 17 / 41% |
| Have not used these tools: 8 / 19% |
| Total Votes Cast: 41 |
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| May 2004 - June 2004 |
| Are you getting international business opportunities of any kind? (If your company has multiple kinds of international involvements, please take a moment and vote for each.) |
| No involvement: 4 / 21% |
| My company is involved with international projects: 7 / 36% |
| My company has made international investments: 0 / 0% |
| There is international investment in my company: 0 / 0% |
| My company is international and operates in U.S.: 2 / 10% |
| My company has built from designs prepared outside the U.S.: 1 / 5% |
| My company uses international major equipment such as boilers, turbines, generators, paper machines, motors, controls, switches, computers: 2 / 10% |
| My company is working in or seeking work in Iraq: 3 / 15% |
| Total Votes Cast: 19 |
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| June 2004 - July 2004 |
| Are rising cement prices causing claims or disputes on your projects? |
| No: 8 / 40% |
| Yes On projects in Northeast: 2 / 10% |
| Yes On projects in Southeast: 4 / 20% |
| Yes On projects in Midwest: 1 / 5% |
| Yes On projects in West: 5 / 25% |
| Total Votes Cast: 20 |
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| August 2004 - September 2004 |
| Have you gotten any business involving homeland security? |
| No: 11 / 73% |
| Yes On projects in Northeast: 1 / 6% |
| Yes On projects in Southeast: 1 / 6% |
| Yes On projects in Midwest: 1 / 6% |
| Yes On projects in West: 1 / 6% |
| Total Votes Cast: 15 |
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| September 2004 - October 2004 |
| Do you expect your business to improve in the next year? |
| Yes: 19 / 76% |
| No Change: 4 / 16% |
| No: 2 / 8% |
| Total Votes Cast: 25 |
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| October 2004 - November 2004 |
| Who is your choice for President? |
| Bush: 1754 / 77% |
| Kerry: 480 / 21% |
| Nader: 36 / 1% |
| None of the above: 7 / 0% |
| Total Votes Cast: 2277 |
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| November 2004 - December 2004 |
| Are you having trouble getting payment and performance bonds? |
| No: 7 / 31% |
| Yes getting bonds at all: 6 / 27% |
| Yes limits on bonding capacity or demands for collateral: 9 / 40% |
| Total Votes Cast: 22 |
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| December 2004 - January 2005 |
| Election 2004 results: Is your business outlook better? |
| Better: 19 / 51% |
| Same: 7 / 18% |
| Worse: 11 / 29% |
| Total Votes Cast: 37 |
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| January 2005 - February 2005 |
| Is theft of your construction equipment and materials increasing? |
| Yes Equipment: 3 / 16% |
| Yes Materials: 1 / 5% |
| Yes Both: 12 / 66% |
| No: 2 / 11% |
| Total Votes Cast: 18 |
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| February 2005 - March 2005 |
| Are you interested in getting training and education online? |
| Yes I have tried online training and like it: 11 / 44% |
| Yes I would like to try online training: 11 / 44% |
| No I have tried online training and did not like it: 0 / 0% |
| No I have no interest in online training: 3 / 12% |
| Total Votes Cast: 25 |
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| March 2005 - April 2005 |
| Are you still having problems with steel shortages and prices? |
| Yes Problems are worse than a year ago: 11 / 45% |
| Yes Problems remain about the same as a year ago: 7 / 29% |
| No The steel supply situation has improved: 6 / 25% |
| Total Votes Cast: 24 |
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| April 2005 - May 2005 |
| Have you had mold problems on any of your projects? |
| Yes: 87 / 25% |
| No: 251 / 74% |
| Total Votes Cast: 338 |
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| May 2005 - June 2005 |
| Have you lost work or business in the U.S. to overseas companies? |
| Yes: 6 / 54% |
| No: 5 / 45% |
| Total Votes Cast: 11 |
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| June 2005 - July 2005 |
| Do you have trouble getting timely, accurate underground utility locations? |
| Yes: 14 / 60% |
| No: 9 / 39% |
| Total Votes Cast: 23 |
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| August 2005 - September 2005 |
| Have you seen a government agency abuse the False Claims Act? |
| Yes: 13 / 68% |
| No: 6 / 31% |
| Total Votes Cast: 19 |
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| September 2005 - October 2005 |
| Do you expect your business to improve in the next year? |
| Yes: 20 / 74% |
| No Change: 2 / 7% |
| No: 5 / 18% |
| Total Votes Cast: 27 |
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| October 2005 - November 2005 |
| Are the hurricanes causing you higher wage or material costs? |
| Yes Shortages of materials, higher prices for them: 18 / 17% |
| Yes Shortages of workers, higher wage rates for them: 3 / 2% |
| Yes Both: 57 / 54% |
| No: 26 / 25% |
| Total Votes Cast: 104 |
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| November 2005 - December 2005 |
| Do you use a PDA? |
| Yes Love mine: 24 / 44% |
| Yes Annoying but necessary: 7 / 12% |
| No But its on my Christmas list: 14 / 25% |
| No More communication than I want or need: 9 / 16% |
| Total Votes Cast: 54 |
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| December 2005 - January 2006 |
| Are you finding that key materials, equipment are available only from overseas? |
| Yes: 7 / 77% |
| No: 2 / 22% |
| Total Votes Cast: 9 |
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| January 2006 - February 2006 |
| Are you having trouble getting skilled craft workers? |
| Yes: 36 / 85% |
| No: 1 / 2% |
| No Filling our gaps with foreign-born workers: 5 / 11% |
| Total Votes Cast: 42 |
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| February 2006 - March 2006 |
| Are you recycling building materials or using recycled materials? |
| Yes: 4 / 44% |
| Interested but have not tried it yet: 4 / 44% |
| No: 1 / 11% |
| Total Votes Cast: 9 |
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| March 2006 - April 2006 |
| E-mail -- is it getting to be too much of a good thing? |
| Yes Im buried in e-mails: 12 / 31% |
| Im OK -- At least for now: 13 / 34% |
| No Im keeping up fine: 9 / 23% |
| Pour it on I like e-mails: 4 / 10% |
| Total Votes Cast: 38 |
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| April 2006 - May 2006 |
| Have rising costs delayed or killed any of your recent projects? |
| Yes Project canceled: 7 / 31% |
| Yes Project still delayed: 8 / 36% |
| Yes Project delayed but going forward now: 4 / 18% |
| No problems: 3 / 13% |
| Total Votes Cast: 22 |
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| May 2006 - June 2006 |
| Are you passing along rising energy costs to customers? |
| Yes Higher fixed-price contract prices: 7 / 36% |
| Yes Doing more cost reimbursable work: 1 / 5% |
| Yes Energy cost escalation protection built into contract: 1 / 5% |
| Yes Energy and material cost escalation protection built into contract: 2 / 10% |
| No: 8 / 42% |
| Total Votes Cast: 19 |
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| June 2006 - July 2006 |
| Are you having trouble getting large-sized tires for equipment? |
| Yes All kinds of tires: 0 / 0% |
| Yes Some kinds of tires: 5 / 62% |
| No: 3 / 37% |
| Total Votes Cast: 8 |
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| July 2006 - August 2006 |
| What is more important: good pay, benefits, work conditions or job security? |
| Good pay: 10 / 31% |
| Benefits: 8 / 25% |
| Working conditions: 10 / 31% |
| Job security: 4 / 12% |
| Total Votes Cast: 32 |
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| September 2006 - October 2006 |
| Do you expect your business to improve in the next year? |
| Yes: 7 / 38% |
| No Change: 8 / 44% |
| No: 3 / 16% |
| Total Votes Cast: 18 |
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| October 2006 - November 2006 |
| How much do you use the Web as part of your work? |
| Power user: multiple times a day: 19 / 86% |
| Steady user: once a day: 2 / 9% |
| Occasional user: several times a week: 1 / 4% |
| As little as possible: 0 / 0% |
| Total Votes Cast: 22 |
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| November 2006 - December 2006 |
| Are you involved in any biofuels projects? |
| Yes: 7 / 30% |
| Pursuing such work: 6 / 26% |
| No but interested: 10 / 43% |
| No: 0 / 0% |
| Total Votes Cast: 23 |
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| December 2006 - January 2007 |
| Do you visit blogs or chat rooms for your work? |
| Yes: 25 / 64% |
| No not helpful for my work: 7 / 17% |
| No never visited one: 7 / 17% |
| Total Votes Cast: 39 |
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| January 2007 - February 2007 |
| Have you been on projects using Building Information Modeling? |
| Yes helpful to project: 7 / 36% |
| Yes but not particularly helpful to project: 0 / 0% |
| No: 12 / 63% |
| Total Votes Cast: 19 |
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| February 2007 - March 2007 |
| What is your biggest business concern in 2007? |
| Shortages of manual labor: 10 / 25% |
| Shortages of non-manual and professional employees: 7 / 17% |
| Shortages of materials: 1 / 2% |
| Need to use imported materials: 0 / 0% |
| Fewer projects, less work available: 3 / 7% |
| Rising cost of wages, benefits: 0 / 0% |
| Rising cost of materials: 2 / 5% |
| Rising cost of tools, construction equipment: 0 / 0% |
| Rising cost of fuel: 5 / 12% |
| Rising cost of workers comp insurance: 3 / 7% |
| Rising cost of liability insurance: 1 / 2% |
| Government, regulatory, legal compliance: 4 / 10% |
| Other: 3 / 7% |
| Total Votes Cast: 39 |
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| March 2007 - April 2007 |
| Are immigration laws affecting your workforce? |
| Yes Harder to get new employees: 3 / 13% |
| Yes Impacting existing workers: 4 / 18% |
| Yes Both: 5 / 22% |
| No: 10 / 45% |
| Total Votes Cast: 22 |
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| April 2007 - May 2007 |
| Have you worked on any LEED projects? |
| Yes: 13 / 48% |
| No But very interested in trying LEED projects: 9 / 33% |
| No: 3 / 11% |
| No Not interested in LEED projects: 2 / 7% |
| Total Votes Cast: 27 |
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| May 2007 - June 2007 |
| Do you seek material price increase clauses in your contracts? |
| Yes And I get such provisions: 7 / 25% |
| Yes But there is resistance to including such provisions: 15 / 55% |
| No I know customers will refuse such provisions: 5 / 18% |
| No I am willing to take the price risk: 0 / 0% |
| Total Votes Cast: 27 |
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| June 2007 - July 2007 |
| Do you use your PDA to access the Web? |
| Yes For news, business updates, similar information: 20 / 55% |
| Yes For travel resources / help while on the road: 1 / 2% |
| Yes For sports news and other entertainment: 1 / 2% |
| Yes For all kinds of browsing: 5 / 13% |
| Yes Other: 1 / 2% |
| No Just use it for e-mails, phoning, addresses: 8 / 22% |
| Total Votes Cast: 36 |
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| July 2007 - September 2007 |
| What is most important in a job: pay, benefits, working conditions or job security? |
| Good pay: 18 / 33% |
| Benefits: 7 / 12% |
| Working conditions: 21 / 38% |
| Job security: 8 / 14% |
| Total Votes Cast: 54 |
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| September 2007 - October 2007 |
| Is it time to raise taxes to rebuild our infrastructure? |
| Yes: 11 / 26% |
| No Sufficient funding already is available: 13 / 30% |
| No Need is there, but the money will not be spent wisely: 18 / 42% |
| Total Votes Cast: 42 |
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| October 2007 - November 2007 |
| Do you expect your business to improve in the next year? |
| Yes: 16 / 69% |
| No Change: 5 / 21% |
| No: 2 / 8% |
| Total Votes Cast: 23 |
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| November 2007 - December 2007 |
| Does your company spend money on research and development? |
| Yes Significant Amounts: 12 / 19% |
| Yes But Only Minimal Amounts: 17 / 26% |
| No: 34 / 53% |
| Total Votes Cast: 63 |
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| December 2007 - January 2008 |
| How extensively do you use project risk management tools? |
| Revenues of $20 million or less: Risk management tools are not used on projects: 15 / 32% |
| Revenues of $20 million or less: Risk management tools are used and updated sometimes: 1 / 2% |
| Revenues of $20 million or less: Risk management tools are used actively on all projects and updated regularly: 2 / 4% |
| Revenues of $75 million or less: Risk managment tools are not used on projects: 2 / 4% |
| Revenues of $75 million or less: Risk management tools are used and updated sometimes: 4 / 8% |
| Revenues of $75 million or less: Risk management tools are used actively on all projects and updated regularly: 3 / 6% |
| Revenues of more than $75 million: Risk management tools are not used on projects: 5 / 10% |
| Revenues of more than $75 million: Risk management tools are used and updated sometimes: 4 / 8% |
| Revenues of more than $75 million: Risk management tools are used actively on all projects and updated regularly: 10 / 21% |
| Total Votes Cast: 46 |
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| January 2008 - February 2008 |
| What is your biggest business concern in 2008? |
| Fewer projects, less work available: 17 / 54% |
| Problems getting financing for projects: 3 / 9% |
| Shortages of manual labor: 2 / 6% |
| Shortages of non-manual and professional employees: 3 / 9% |
| Shortages of materials: 0 / 0% |
| Need to use imported materials: 0 / 0% |
| Rising cost of wages, benefits: 0 / 0% |
| Rising cost of materials: 1 / 3% |
| Rising cost of tools, construction equipment: 0 / 0% |
| Rising cost of fuel: 3 / 9% |
| Rising cost of workers comp insurance: 0 / 0% |
| Rising cost of liability insurance: 0 / 0% |
| Government, regulatory, legal compliance: 2 / 6% |
| Other: 0 / 0% |
| Total Votes Cast: 31 |
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| February 2008 - March 2008 |
| Have you gotten any business involving homeland security? |
| No: 19 / 100% |
| Yes On projects in Northeast: 0 / 0% |
| Yes On projects in Southeast: 0 / 0% |
| Yes On projects in Midwest: 0 / 0% |
| Yes On projects in West: 0 / 0% |
| Total Votes Cast: 19 |
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| March 2008 - April 2008 |
| With the economic downturn, are you bidding more public work? |
| Yes - More: 7 / 41% |
| No Change: 10 / 58% |
| Total Votes Cast: 17 |
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| April 2008 - May 2008 |
| Clinton, McCain or Obama? |
| Clinton: 15 / 14% |
| McCain: 40 / 39% |
| Obama: 46 / 45% |
| Total Votes Cast: 101 |
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| May 2008 - June 2008 |
| Have you changed driving patterns because of high gas prices? |
| Yes -- Driving less: 15 / 75% |
| Yes Bought more fuel efficient vehicle: 1 / 5% |
| Yes -- Both: 1 / 5% |
| No: 3 / 15% |
| Total Votes Cast: 20 |
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| June 2008 - August 2008 |
| Have water shortages affected your business? |
| Yes Projects canceled: 1 / 9% |
| Yes Getting new water supply and recovery projects: 5 / 45% |
| Yes Getting new water conservation projects: 1 / 9% |
| No: 4 / 36% |
| Total Votes Cast: 11 |
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| August 2008 - September 2008 |
| What is most important in a job: pay, benefits, job security, or working conditions? |
| Good pay: 9 / 32% |
| Benefits: 1 / 3% |
| Job security: 11 / 39% |
| Working conditions: 7 / 25% |
| Total Votes Cast: 28 |
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| September 2008 - October 2008 |
| Do you expect your business to improve in the next year? |
| Yes: 11 / 31% |
| No Change : 9 / 25% |
| No: 15 / 42% |
| Total Votes Cast: 35 |
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| October 2008 - November 2008 |
| McCain or Obama for President? |
| McCain: 115 / 60% |
| Obama: 75 / 39% |
| Total Votes Cast: 190 |
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| November 2008 - January 2009 |
| The economic mess will it improve in 2009? |
| Yes: 31 / 46% |
| No: 27 / 40% |
| Dont Know: 9 / 13% |
| Total Votes Cast: 67 |
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| January 2009 - February 2009 |
| Are you having problems getting paid for work? |
| Yes problems with public owners: 1 / 5% |
| Yes problems with private owners: 3 / 15% |
| Yes problems with all kinds of owners: 7 / 36% |
| No no more difficult than usual: 8 / 42% |
| Total Votes Cast: 19 |
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| February 2009 - March 2009 |
| The economic stimulus package: Will it work? |
| Yes right amount, right approach: 4 / 16% |
| Not sure if it is big enough: 5 / 20% |
| Not enough for infrastructure: 3 / 12% |
| No wrong approach: 12 / 50% |
| Total Votes Cast: 24 |
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| March 2009 - April 2009 |
| What is your biggest business concern in 2009? |
| Fewer projects, less work available : 5 / 14% |
| Problems getting financing for projects : 11 / 32% |
| Overall state of the U.S. economy: 9 / 26% |
| Shortages of manual labor: 0 / 0% |
| Shortages of non-manual and professional employees: 0 / 0% |
| Shortages of materials: 0 / 0% |
| Need to use imported materials: 0 / 0% |
| Rising cost of wages, benefits: 0 / 0% |
| Rising cost of materials: 0 / 0% |
| Rising cost of tools, construction equipment: 0 / 0% |
| Rising cost of fuel: 0 / 0% |
| Rising cost of workers comp insurance: 0 / 0% |
| Rising cost of liability insurance: 0 / 0% |
| Government, regulatory, legal compliance: 2 / 5% |
| Other: 7 / 20% |
| Total Votes Cast: 34 |
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| April 2009 - May 2009 |
| Chinese drywall: Was any used on your projects? |
| Yes: 1 / 6% |
| Not Sure But Investigating: 9 / 60% |
| Not Sure Not Concerned and Not Investigating: 2 / 13% |
| No: 3 / 20% |
| Total Votes Cast: 15 |
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| May 2009 - June 2009 |
| With the economic downturn, are you bidding more public work? |
| Yes More: 2 / 22% |
| No Change: 4 / 44% |
| Will re-evaluate when stimulus projects go out to bid: 3 / 33% |
| Total Votes Cast: 9 |
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| June 2009 - August 2009 |
| How are you using the Web at work these days? |
| Leads to new business: 3 / 33% |
| To get technical information : 1 / 11% |
| Design collaboration: 0 / 0% |
| Project collaboration and management: 1 / 11% |
| Purchasing and procurement of materials: 1 / 11% |
| Business management: 0 / 0% |
| Buy and sell equipment: 1 / 11% |
| Equipment management: 0 / 0% |
| Training: 0 / 0% |
| Facility management: 0 / 0% |
| Permitting and compliance: 0 / 0% |
| To get business information: 2 / 22% |
| News: 0 / 0% |
| To chat and exchange information: 0 / 0% |
| Total Votes Cast: 9 |
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| August 2009 - September 2009 |
| What is most important in a job: pay, benefits, job security, or working conditions? |
| Good pay: 5 / 21% |
| Benefits: 7 / 30% |
| Job security: 8 / 34% |
| Working conditions: 3 / 13% |
| Total Votes Cast: 23 |
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| September 2009 - October 2009 |
| Have you worked on any projects funded with stimulus money? |
| Yes: 9 / 37% |
| No, but currently bidding stimulus work: 2 / 8% |
| No: 13 / 54% |
| Total Votes Cast: 24 |
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| October 2009 - November 2009 |
| Do you expect your business to improve in the next year? |
| Yes: 4 / 40% |
| No change: 2 / 20% |
| No: 4 / 40% |
| Total Votes Cast: 10 |
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| November 2009 - December 2009 |
| What are you doing during the downturn? |
| Trying to find work: 2 / 25% |
| Just trying to hang on in present situation: 0 / 0% |
| Developing new skills and abilities: 3 / 37% |
| Moving into new lines of construction business: 2 / 25% |
| Looking for opportunities in non-construction business: 1 / 12% |
| Total Votes Cast: 8 |
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| December 2009 - January 2010 |
| Do you read blogs? |
| Yes for business information: 1 / 0% |
| Yes for personal information and enjoyment: 4 / 3% |
| Yes for both kinds of information: 35 / 33% |
| No information on them is not useful: 62 / 59% |
| No information on them is not reliable: 2 / 1% |
| Total Votes Cast: 104 |
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| January 2010 - February 2010 |
| What is your biggest business concern in 2010? |
| Fewer projects, less work available : 31 / 11% |
| Problems getting financing for projects : 217 / 81% |
| Overall state of the U.S. economy: 14 / 5% |
| Shortages of manual labor : 0 / 0% |
| Shortages of non-manual and professional employees: 1 / 0% |
| Shortages of materials: 0 / 0% |
| Need to use imported materials: 0 / 0% |
| Rising cost of wages, benefits: 0 / 0% |
| Rising cost of materials: 0 / 0% |
| Rising cost of tools, construction equipment: 0 / 0% |
| Rising cost of fuel: 0 / 0% |
| Rising cost of workers comp insurance: 0 / 0% |
| Rising cost of liability insurance: 0 / 0% |
| Government, regulatory, legal compliance: 2 / 0% |
| Other: 2 / 0% |
| Total Votes Cast: 267 |
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| February 2010 - March 2010 |
| What is helping you do your job better these days? |
| Developed a better way to do my work: 4 / 26% |
| New small tools: 0 / 0% |
| New equipment: 0 / 0% |
| New project management techniques: 2 / 13% |
| New software: 2 / 13% |
| New computer hardware: 1 / 6% |
| New Web-based tools: 2 / 13% |
| Other: 4 / 26% |
| Total Votes Cast: 15 |
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| March 2010 - April 2010 |
| Contractor licensing laws are they worth the trouble? |
| Registration to protect consumers, but not businesses, is worthwhile: 3 / 1% |
| Testing, qualification checking to determine technical capability is worthwhile: 3 / 1% |
| Both registration and testing for technical capability are worthwhile: 8 / 5% |
| Consumer protection is a waste of time honest contractors comply but crooks do not: 132 / 84% |
| Technical screening is not effective. The requirements are too simple.: 0 / 0% |
| As a practical matter, neither consumer protection nor technical testing effectively screens out crooked and incompetent contractors: 10 / 6% |
| Total Votes Cast: 156 |
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| April 2010 - May 2010 |
| Have you lost business as a result of corruption by a competitor? |
| Yes lost business in the United States: 4 / 8% |
| Yes lost business in other countries: 2 / 4% |
| Yes lost business in both the United States and other countries: 0 / 0% |
| No: 43 / 87% |
| Total Votes Cast: 49 |
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| May 2010 - June 2010 |
| How are you using your PDA these days? |
| The basics phone, e-mail, text messages, address book for phone numbers and e-mail addresses: 2 / 25% |
| Accessing the Web: 0 / 0% |
| Viewing newspapers, books, magazines, publications: 0 / 0% |
| As a jobsite tool to view plans, specs, RFIs, RFI responses: 0 / 0% |
| On the road in place of a PC: 0 / 0% |
| All of the above: 2 / 25% |
| All of the above and more: 0 / 0% |
| No PDA just a cell phone: 3 / 37% |
| No PDA or cell phone: 1 / 12% |
| Total Votes Cast: 8 |
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| June 2010 - August 2010 |
| The Gulf oil spill was it a project management failure? |
| Project management failure: 5 / 23% |
| Executive level failure: 6 / 28% |
| Both: 10 / 47% |
| Unfortunate accident: 0 / 0% |
| Total Votes Cast: 21 |
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| August 2010 - September 2010 |
| What is most important in a job: pay, benefits, job security, or working conditions? |
| Good pay: 6 / 30% |
| Benefits: 4 / 20% |
| Job security: 6 / 30% |
| Working conditions: 4 / 20% |
| Total Votes Cast: 20 |
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| September 2010 - October 2010 |
| How is your company surviving the recession? |
| Working in new geographic areas: 0 / 0% |
| Moving into new lines or types of construction services: 3 / 27% |
| Doing more public works projects: 1 / 9% |
| Moving into non-construction businesses: 0 / 0% |
| Scaling back business / hunkering down: 4 / 36% |
| Didnt went out of business: 3 / 27% |
| Total Votes Cast: 11 |
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| October 2010 - November 2010 |
| Do you expect your business to improve in the next year? |
| Yes: 4 / 30% |
| No change: 3 / 23% |
| No: 6 / 46% |
| Total Votes Cast: 13 |
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| November 2010 - December 2010 |
| Mid-Term Elections 2010: What is your reaction? |
| Things look better: 47 / 87% |
| Things look worse: 3 / 5% |
| No change: 4 / 7% |
| Total Votes Cast: 54 |
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| December 2010 - January 2011 |
| Canceling big rail projects: Prudent or lost opportunity? |
| Good idea saves money in a bad economy: 6 / 46% |
| Bad idea shortsighted failure to build needed infrastructure: 7 / 53% |
| Total Votes Cast: 13 |
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| January 2011 - September 2011 |
| What is your biggest business concern in 2011? |
| Fewer projects, less work available: 13 / 41% |
| Problems getting financing for projects: 4 / 12% |
| Overall state of the U.S. economy: 11 / 35% |
| Shortages of manual labor: 0 / 0% |
| Shortages of non-manual and professional employees: 0 / 0% |
| Shortages of materials: 0 / 0% |
| Need to use imported materials: 0 / 0% |
| Rising cost of wages, benefits: 0 / 0% |
| Rising cost of materials: 0 / 0% |
| Rising cost of tools, construction equipment: 0 / 0% |
| Rising cost of fuel: 1 / 3% |
| Rising cost of workers comp insurance: 0 / 0% |
| Rising cost of liability insurance: 0 / 0% |
| Government, regulatory, legal compliance: 1 / 3% |
| Other: 1 / 3% |
| Total Votes Cast: 31 |
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| Totals So Far on This Month's Question: |
| Good pay: 11 / 32% |
| Benefits: 3 / 8% |
| Job security: 6 / 17% |
| Working conditions: 14 / 41% |
| Total Votes Cast: 34 |
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