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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.

Americans Quit & Canadians Stay: Could It Be the Hedonic Treadmill?

June 8, 2021
Richard Finnegan
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Let’s be direct. U.S workers are quitters. And a recent experience put that into full perspective when a client company executive said, “Let’s just work on cutting turnover in the U.S. Our Canadian plants always have low turnover”. Other executives have said similar things over the years so this time I looked it up.

Amazon May Set the Minimum Wage, But Employees Stay for More Than Pay

May 31, 2021
Richard Finnegan
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An HR executive just told me his company raised their starting pay for all jobs because their main plant was surrounded by Amazon sites. That sentence is pretty standard.

How Can Unemployment Be 6.1% When “Help Wanted” Signs Are Everywhere?

May 24, 2021
Richard Finnegan
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Let’s start with the common belief that workers are collecting unemployment, waiting until September, and are receiving more than they were earning in their prior jobs. “Not so fast, my friend” is one college football commentator’s catchphrase for disagreeing with his Saturday morning colleagues…

Does Microsoft’s Work-From-Home Warning Apply to Your Company, Too?

May 17, 2021
Richard Finnegan
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The report is in. Microsoft has released “The New Future of Work, Research from Microsoft Into the Pandemic’s Impact on Work Practices”. All 65 pages of it. Here are three leap-out parts for me...

A Genuine, Gripping Story About What Employees Talk About Over Dinner

May 10, 2021
Richard Finnegan
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"I totally get what you mean when you say what matters is what employees talk about over dinner. My husband and I work for the same company though he works in a different division and a different location. Each night he complains to me about his boss over dinner. At some point I switched from being an HR person to being his wife, and I asked when he was going to quit. He said he knew the date, and during his exit interview he wouldn’t say a thing, just wanted to get out."

Think It’s Hard to Find An Electrician Now? Just Wait.

Rebuilding our infrastructure is just a matter of time, measured in months. I wonder, though, if anyone in Washington is wondering where the needed workers will come from because I can’t find an electrician now. But “The American Jobs Plan” is about more than electricians. It’s about 19 million Americans with various work histories getting new jobs.

Alarming Realities Regarding Employee Engagement

April 27, 2021
Richard Finnegan
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How hard is it to understand that employees do want recognition, communication, and career coaching…but they want it from their boss? Yet we persist to believe one-size-fits-all programs are worthy substitutes for our managers performing their jobs. So there is no mystery why employee engagement has been stuck for 20 years.