San Diego – – October 02, 2026 -- A national survey of 5,000 U.S. adults has found that Americans rate a family birthday party as a more awkward setting for discussing inheritance than a funeral, upending assumptions about when families confront estate planning. Trust & Will's 2026 Death & Inheritance Report found 63% of respondents call a birthday the most awkward occasion for the conversation, compared with 41% for a funeral or wake and just 32% for an ordinary phone call.

Rochester, N.Y. – October 01, 2026 -- Multifocal contact lenses ranked as the fourth most selected anti-aging product category among U.S. consumers aged 38 and older, tying with fitness memberships and aesthetic dental care and outranking cosmetic procedures, according to new CooperVision research.

Menlo Park, Calif. – October 01, 2026 -- More than half of U.S. employers, 57%, are offering higher-than-planned salaries to secure new hires, with specialized skills cited as the top driver, according to Robert Half's 2027 Salary Guide released this week.

New York – October 01, 2026 -- Kyndryl (NYSE: KD) found that 98% of organizations that delayed technology modernization experienced negative business impacts, according to the company's first global Modernization Report released today. The study, based on responses from 2,000 business and technology leaders across five continents and 12 industries, shows nearly half of organizations are behind schedule on modernization goals even as AI adoption becomes the dominant investment driver.

Frisco, Texas – September 30, 2026 -- Thirty-one percent of healthcare organizations experienced unauthorized identities accessing sensitive data in the past year, compared with 24% across other industries, according to new healthcare findings from Netwrix's 2026 Data and Identity Security Report. Among healthcare organizations that suffered an incident, 33% reported costs exceeding $250,000, versus 21% in other sectors.

Campbell, Calif. – September 29, 2026 -- Vivalink, a digital healthcare solutions provider, published survey data showing 79% of more than 150 U.S. adults with cardiac conditions would participate in a home-based cardiac rehabilitation program if recommended by a provider.

Patients favor hybrid or home-based rehab over clinic visits

When given a choice, 68% of respondents said they would prefer a primarily home-based or hybrid rehabilitation approach over traditional in-clinic programs.

Denver – – September 29, 2026 -- Executives targeting AI-driven headcount reduction are nearly half as likely to fund the upskilling needed to realize AI efficiency gains, according to new research from Businessolver released as part of its 11th annual State of Workplace Empathy study.

SAN FRANCISCO – September 28, 2026 -- More than 4 in 5 adults in the United States (85%) and United Kingdom (86%) say cost-of-living pressures have stopped them from donating or donating more over the past six months, according to a new Harris Poll survey of over 3,000 adults commissioned by nonprofit lender Kiva.

Stockholm – – September 28, 2026 -- More than half of senior enterprise leaders, 58%, have delayed, scaled back or added safeguards to strategic initiatives over the past two years due to concerns about their network provider, according to a new report from Arelion.

Montreal – September 23, 2026 -- Seventy-seven percent of organizations experienced at least one Microsoft 365 governance incident in the past year, even as two-thirds now run multiple AI tools against the same tenant content, according to the second annual State of M365 report released by ShareGate.