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Despite the ongoing pandemic, businesses of all sizes report improving financials this fall, and optimism about the next 12 months is increasing.

The latest Principal Financial Well-Being Index surveyed 500 decision-makers about how they are adapting their operations to manage the current reality. The results were broken into categories of small (up to 499 employees) and large (500 to 10,000 employees) businesses.

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