2020 – Mood of the Boardroom: The Covid Election

The New Zealand Herald’s Mood of the Boardroom 2020 Election Year survey, taken in association with BusinessNZ, provided an in-depth assessment of CEO opinion at what was the most concerning time in the survey’s long history due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

The 2020 Mood of the Boardroom CEOs Survey attracted participation from 165 respondents. This survey saw opinions some 140 chief executives including CEOs of some of NZ’s biggest companies, some publicly owned institutions and heads of several influential business organisations and several directors.

This survey was in the series’ 19th year, having been launched in December 2002 within a NZ Herald State of the Nation report.