With much data circulating about “The Great Resignation”, you may think it’s hard to separate which information really matters. Recently, our Bureau of Labor Statistics, or BLS, reported quits rate by state and the complete report reveals two Americas...and this data matters.
As I've shared in two recent articles, most employees won’t care about your referral program if you don’t pay out a significant chunk the day the referred employee starts – and Forbes agrees.
The science shows that helping managers solve turnover is equally as important as recruiting new hires, and at a time when the number of open positions AND the number of employees quitting across our country has never been higher.
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?
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.
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.
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…
We learned a new trick at home this past weekend, that when we turned on the captions the shows got better. It cleared up jumbled dialogue and we paid more attention to the background notes. Things didn’t notice before that add to the experience but still don’t compete with the primary story line, the continuously-developing plot, and the stars of the show. And the stars of your must-cut-turnover show are your first line supervisors.
The Washington Post recently combined with the University of Maryland to survey on Covid-19 issues and released their results regarding political approval ratings and predictions for when businesses should re-open. At first this looked to me like more of the…
This is a hard time to work in HR. Managing the logistics of who works from home, who/how do we pay, learning & applying new legislation on the fly, and helping our organizations make emergency business decisions are all impacting…