2025 C-Suite Stress Index: Large Businesses
The 2025 C-Suite Stress Index for Large Businesses reveals a challenging risk landscape for company leaders.
Stress is rising among C-suite executives at large companies, with 82% reporting higher stress levels than last year. That figure is 15 percentage points higher than that of leaders at smaller organizations, as captured in our full 2025 C-Suite Stress Index.
This heightened stress stems from a range of emerging corporate risks:
Supply chain and logistics challenges (45%) are the most-cited business threat, according to executives of large companies—followed closely by economic uncertainty (39%).
The majority (60%) of executives expect their business to remain flat or shrink in 2025.
Read this year’s full report to discover how executives at large businesses view the year ahead—including their thoughts on stress, emerging risks, and company forecasts.
2025 Large Business Report
Discover how executives at large businesses view the 2025 business landscape, including the trends shaping their decisions.
Stress is rising among C-suite executives at large businesses
Top threats facing large businesses in 2025
Economic uncertainty, supply chain disruptions, and an increasingly complex legal landscape aren’t just short-term challenges. They’re risks shaping business strategies for the foreseeable future. Learn how executives at large companies are managing these pressures.
Labor strain
Leaders are shifting focus to in-house productivity. More than half (55%) are requiring employees to work longer hours or take fewer breaks. And 43% expect workers to increase output beyond their current expectations.
Supply chain disruptions puts focus on drivers
With large-scale distribution networks spread across the country, most large businesses (98%) rely on in-house drivers to localize supply chain routes. Safety, in turn, has become non-negotiable. Every executive surveyed said their company has taken corrective action on a company driver. And 82% report using dashcams to monitor and increase safety across a mobile workforce.
Nuclear verdicts
Large organizations recognize their size makes them more attractive targets for lawsuits and rulings that result in exceptionally high damages. 84% view multi-million dollar verdicts as a problem in their industry. Nearly 60% plan to increase liability insurance coverage to help protect against larger judgments.
Betting on safety to control insurance costs
In an uncertain economy, more large business executives are looking for greater control over their insurance costs. 51% are willing to share more risk with their insurers to lower upfront costs. Given this approach, leaders are increasing efforts to prevent accidents within their company—with 99% planning to increase safety investments in 2025.
2025 C-Suite Stress Index: Large Businesses
Executives at large companies are navigating emerging risks and rising stress. Find out what challenges and opportunities they see in 2025.
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