Employee Retention

Keeping Retention Goals Top of Mind

Keeping Retention Goals Top of Mind
Each of you knows that nothing happens in organizations without accountability…nothing…yet my guess is fewer than 5% of global companies, large and small, actually hold someone accountable for turnover. This is why we always begin with converting turnover to dollars. It’s the turnover accountability wake-up call.
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PROOF: Employees Talk About Their Bosses Over Dinner

Employees Talk About Their Bosses Over Dinner
During a recent client discussion, I mentioned my belief that what matters most regarding employee retention and engagement is what employees talk about over dinner. That the feelings we tell ourselves on our way home from work plus any subsequent conversations we have soon after ultimately predicts how long we will stay and how committed we are to our day-to-day work.
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Connecting Thanksgiving, Poverty, and Stopping Absences (2021 reprint)

Connecting Thanksgiving, Poverty, and Stopping Absences
I kept searching for clues as to how a poverty-stricken person views work, clinging to the naïve notion that work = money = getting out of poverty, so therefore one would give all to their job as the ticket out. Then I read more about poverty and the big lesson for me is that a poverty-stricken person’s reality is worse than I thought, with a lack of support systems and knowledge of hidden rules.
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Want to Increase Expensive Turnover? Try This

Want to Increase Expensive Turnover?
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.
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