September 4, 2002—Nearly half the workers in the United States say that their companies have not strengthened security procedures since September 11 and a third of them say their companies are not strictly enforcing security procedures all the time, according to Attitudes in the American Workplace VIII, The Marlin Company’s eighth annual Labor Day survey.
Fifty-one percent say their company’s management took an active role in addressing workers’ emotional concerns related to 9/11, and 51 percent say that people where they work have not fundamentally changed since 9/11 in terms of being more understanding of each other and being more cohesive as a team.
Nevertheless, 91 percent say they feel secure in their workplace.
The survey was done for Marlin, a North Haven, Ct., workplace communications company, by Harris Interactive based on 750 interviews among a nationally representative sample of American workers. Harris Interactive conducted telephone interviews from June 3-17, 2002.
In terms of the effect of 9/11 on workers, 41% say they’re now more focused on their home life, 4% are more focused on their work life, and 55% say their priorities haven’t changed. On the job, 22% say people are more suspicious now of foreign workers in their workplace and nearly 1 in 10 (9%) believe that diversity efforts have suffered setbacks because of racial profiling since 9/11.
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