Opinion: One-third of retirees head back to work force

Number of those that are sales positions: 42,198

Estimated number of military veterans hired by auto dealers since January 2004: 15,000

Communicators, prevaricators

Percentage of undergraduate communications and journalism students in the United States who admitted to serious cheating on exams, ranking them as the students who were the worst cheaters, according to a survey by the Center for Academic Integrity: 27

Percentage of undergraduate business students who admitted to serious cheating on exams: 26

Fleeing the executive suite

Number of CEO departures in 2005, according to a survey by Challenger, Gray & Christmas: 1,322

Number of CEO departures in 2004: 663

Number of CEO departures in 2003: 695

For poorer

Percentage of newlyweds who felt that dealing with costs associated with the wedding was the most daunting aspect of the wedding (“till debt do us part”) process, according to a recent American Express nationwide survey: 58

Percentage of respondents who found it challenging to find the right vendor for the right price: 39

Percentage of men and women surveyed who said they either did not set up a wedding budget or did not stick to the budget they set up: 75

Dirty work

Rank of teacher, accountant, banker, radio DJ and doctor as the “germiest” jobs, according to “Germs in the Workplace” research led by the University of Arizona’s Dr. Charles Gerba and funded by Clorox Bleach: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Percentage of workers who “only occasionally” clean their desks before eating: 75

Percentage who never do: 20

Back to work!

Number of previously retired Americans who are working for pay again after a short sabbatical, according to a study by Putnam Investments: 7 million

Average length of the short sabbatical: 1.5 years

Percentage of all American retirees this 7 million accounts for: 33

Web communications

Percentage of respondents who are replacing traditional in-person events with Web seminars, according to a survey conducted by Wainhouse Research for WebEx Communications, a provider of on-demand collaborative business applications: 61

Percentage who are using Web seminars to create new marketing programs and tasks: 87

John MacIntyre is an author and former city magazine editor. His Figuratively Speaking column, launched in 1989, is published in more than 40 newspapers and magazines.