Laura Wronski

Businesses that create a puffed-up company ethos but skimp on their most basic responsibility of paying their workforce well will end up with unhappy employees no matter how grandiose their company mission statement, says Laura Wronski, senior research scientist at SurveyMonkey.

Fears that minimum wage increases for workers would crush small businesses and lead to job losses are overblown, according to the Q1 2020 CNBC|SurveyMonkey Small Business Survey.

As small businesses across the country grapple with economic reopening, one of their biggest fears is that new regulations will be a net negative for post-Covid-19 Main Street.

As more workers are called back into offices, those still working from home worry about becoming second-class corporate citizens and career damage.

Small businesses on Main Streets across the U.S., from restaurants to bars, gyms and salons, were preparing for a full economic reopening. Uncertainty is back.

Workers describe themselves as thriving, coasting or struggling, and this view shapes much about jobs out of the pandemic, according to a CNBC|Momentive survey.

Presidents get credit for a strong economy in good times and blame for a struggling economy during bad times, as Biden is experiencing now due to inflation.

There’s a big gap between Democrats and Republicans who approve of business leaders speaking out on political issues.

Main Street business owners push out their forecast of when a recession will hit the U.S. economy, according to the latest CNBC|SurveyMonkey quarterly data.

Workers are often the first to know when a company is slipping into mediocrity, and a new CNBC|Momentive survey reveals one way to track this relationship.