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Latest issue of Today at Work captures the pulse of global workforce sentiment to uncover how AI advances and changing demographics offer new challenges and opportunities for workers and employers alike Workforce Insights from Engagement to Artificial Intelligence: ADP Research's most recent issue of Today at Work reveals the global state of worker engagement, job security, AI sentiment, skills confidence, and work-life balance. Informing Talent Strategies: Turning insight into action, Today at Work helps businesses understand current worker sentiment to drive engagement, productivity, and retention through data-driven talent strategies.

There's still time to accumulate a position in Automatic Data Processing before sentiment fully recovers. M&A uncertainty is masking the long-term opportunity with Kimberly-Clark.

This article is part of our monthly series where we highlight five large-cap, relatively safe, dividend-paying companies offering significant discounts to their historical norms. We go over our filtering process to select just five conservative DGI stocks from more than 7,500 companies that are traded on U.S. exchanges, including OTC networks. In addition to the primary list that yields 3.88%, we present two other groups of five DGI stocks each, from moderate to high yields of up to 8%.

Automatic Data Processing is in very rare company as a dividend growth stock in more ways than one. True to form, the company beat analysts' expectations for revenue and adjusted diluted EPS. Below, I'll reveal the magnitude of its earnings consistency. ADP's balance sheet is nearly immaculate, with a net debt balance of just $1.5 billion as of Dec. 31, 2025.

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Companies added 63,000 workers in February, an improvement from the downwardly revised 11,000 in January and better than the consensus estimate for 48,000. Most of the hiring came in just two sectors: health services and construction.

ROSELAND, N.J., March 4, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Private sector employment increased by 63,000 jobs in February and pay was up 4.5 percent year-over-year according to the February ADP National Employment Report® produced by ADP Research in collaboration with the Stanford Digital Economy Lab ("Stanford Lab").