Richard Finnegan, Author at C-Suite Analytics

#SHRM21 Preview: Managers’ Roles With Turnover

August 31, 2021
Richard Finnegan
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I’m looking forward to speaking at the SHRM21 annual conference in Las Vegas next week, and while I speak at the conference each year, this year I have been asked to prove that managers cause turnover and disengagement rather than HR. Here is a preview of my Mega Session.

Want to Increase Expensive Turnover? Try This

August 24, 2021
Richard Finnegan
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Google has announced they will reduce pay for those employees who have chosen to work permanently from home if their remote location has “lower labor costs than where their former offices are located”. In other words, Google will permit me to continue working for them remotely if I take a pay cut.

Executive Special: 5 Workforce Facts for Your C-Suite

August 17, 2021
Richard Finnegan
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This is your one-page guide to bring your executives and managers into the real world of recruiting and retaining now, so their expectations are real and they develop more patience for your work.

Vaccination Decisions Will Impact Turnover

August 9, 2021
Richard Finnegan
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The heat is on for companies of all sizes to declare if they will require their employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19…risking that those refusing employees could lose their jobs.

Did You Know the Reservation Wage is Now $61,500?

August 3, 2021
Richard Finnegan
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I’m a workaholic…meaning I study work…so come join me if reservation wage is a new term for you. It’s new to me, too.

A One-Of-A-Kind Exit Interview That Works

July 19, 2021
Richard Finnegan
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I wrote here a few weeks ago that exit interviews were the same as toe tags, that whereas autopsies tell reasons why an event happened that exit interviews don’t give us a reason why because of many reasons…including employees don’t tell the truth.

The Best 2-Word Description for Recruiting Today

July 12, 2021
Richard Finnegan
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Consider “too many openings”, “too few candidates”, or perhaps “applicants too picky”…but the best description I heard came from a CEO of a manufacturing company who said this about today’s recruiting: Doom Loop…defined by Jim Collins in Good to Great as “a painful cycle of decline”.

There Is Finally A Real Engagement & Retention Solution

June 28, 2021
Richard Finnegan
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If I asked SHRM why engagement and retention are not on their list, I suspect they would tell me the primary tools for engagement and retention are surveys and SHRM has stayed away from the survey business.

Are Exit Interviews More Like Autopsies or Toe Tags?

June 22, 2021
Richard Finnegan
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Exit interviews have the appearance of leading to a solution because logically if we know why employees leave and we can fix that, then we can cut turnover and employees will stay. That logic breaks down, though, in practice.

Will Work From Home Create More Turnover or Less Turnover For You?

June 15, 2021
Richard Finnegan
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I’ve read over a hundred surveys on this subject and promise to not quote any of them because so much of the data is in conflict. Times change, moods change, and one day employees like working from home while managers don’t…and then the opposite becomes true.