CEOs Most Expected To Act on Employees, Climate, and Discrimination Percent who say I expect CEOs to take a public stand on this issue: GLOBAL 27 Treatment of employees 89 Climate change 82 Discrimination 80 Wealth gap 77 Immigration 72 2023 Edelman Trust Barometer. CEO_ISS_EXP. For each of the following issues, please indicate what you expect CEOs to do. 3-point scale; code 1, publicly take a stand; code 2, take a stand and use resources. Question asked of half of the sample. General population, 27-mkt avg. Data is rebased to exclude those that said, “don’t know,” and showing the sum of codes 1 and 2.