Uncertainty top challenge for Iowa businesses

Workforce still rated major concern in ABI 2025 CEO Survey

By: Emery Styron|July 27, 2025

|8 min read

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Uncertainty, be it due to geopolitical conflict, global market turmoil or rapid shifts in federal government policy, has replaced workforce attraction and retention as the biggest challenge facing leaders of Iowa’s biggest companies, according to results of ABI’s annual CEO Survey.

Fifty-nine percent of the respondents to the 2025 survey chose “uncertainty” from a list of…

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Uncertainty top challenge for Iowa businesses

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