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A Smart Approach to Increasing Employee Referrals

September 28, 2021
Richard Finnegan
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Pay at least half of the total reward to the referring employee on day one, especially if that employee is paid by the hour. Otherwise your referral program begins with a fatal flaw…at a time when you’ve never needed employee referrals more.

How Does the Cost of Turnover Impact Employee Referrals?

September 21, 2021
Richard Finnegan
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Employee referrals are four times more likely to be hired, save companies over $7,500 per hire, perform their jobs better than their peer employees…and most importantly for our purposes, stay longer. What’s not to like?

Report: Are Work-From-Home Employees Invisible?

September 14, 2021
Richard Finnegan
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The combination of many employees working from home plus our trudging through the highest period of quits in history has led to this outcome: A high number of employees have joined and left companies without ever meeting another employee in person.

#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”.