Percentage of U.S. workers who said "interesting work" best describes what they want most in their next position, according to a study conducted by BlessingWhite: 29

Percentage who said "meaningful work": 18

Percentage who said "work-life balance": 18

Percentage who said "financial reward": 14

SECURITY ISSUES

Percentage of surveyed companies that report their business was impacted by the exposure of sensitive or embarrassing information in the past year, according to a study by e-mail security and data loss prevention company Proofpoint Inc.: 26.3

Percentage of companies that investigated a suspected e-mail leak of confidential or proprietary information: 33.8

Percentage of the largest enterprises (20,000 employees or more) that reported that employee e-mail was subpoenaed in the past 12 months: 29.1

NEW YOU

Percentage of U.S. workers who say they have switched careers, according to a study conducted by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press: 61

Percentage of U.S. workers who say they have switched careers two or more times: 39

SEA OF WEALTH

Average amount the ultra-rich (household net worth exceeds $10 million) are expected to have spent on luxury yacht rentals in summer 2007, according to a study conducted by Elite Traveler/Prince & Associates: $384,000

KEY PLAYERS

Percentage of small businesses that say they are very dependent on one or two key people for their success and viability, according to research conducted by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners: 71

Percentage that have "key person" life insurance, a type of policy that enables a business to weather the death of a key employee or buy out the key person's heirs if ownership rights are involved: 22

COLLEGE LIFE

Percentage of U.S. students attending college who ranked "making ends meet financially" as their No. 1 concern, according to a study conducted by Key Bank: 25

Percentage who ranked "workload" as their No. 1 concern: 20

Percentage who ranked "getting good grades" as their No. 1 concern: 16

DISASTER PAY

Percentage of U.S. workers who think they will continue to get paid in the event of a natural disaster, according to a study conducted by the American Payroll Association: 52

BALANCING ACT

Percentage of small-business owners who say that better organization of business and personal priorities is the work-related factor that best helps them achieve work-life balance: 29

Percentage who say hiring and retaining competent employees who could assume some responsibilities: 21

Ranks of better organizing business and personal priorities, and hiring and retaining competent employees that could assume some responsibilities among factors cited as contributing most positively to work-life balance: 1, 2

RUBDOWN

Percentage of Americans who got a massage last year who say it's for relaxation or stress reduction, according to a survey commissioned by the American Massage Therapy Association: 26

Percentage who say it was to pamper themselves: 11

Percentage of those surveyed who say they get massage therapy for medical/health reasons specifically: 30

Estimated amount of money that Americans spent in the search for relief from back pain: $25 billion

LIGHTEN UP

Percentage of workers who said it's important for managers to have a sense of humor, according to a Robert Half International survey: 97

IDLE THOUGHT

"The man who thinks he can do without the world is indeed mistaken, but the man who thinks the world cannot do without him is mistaken even worse."

— Francois, duc de La Rochefoucauld, writer