Employee Turnover

10 Reasons “The Great Resignation” is the New Normal

10 Reasons “The Great Resignation” is the New Normal
We are now firmly in the midst of “The Great Resignation”, and the number of monthly quits have consistently exceeded their all-time highs. This gloomy picture would be incomplete, though, without looking beyond today, wondering how long the workforce clouds will stay dark. There are at least 10 reasons that forecast "The Great Resignation" as the new normal.
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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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Connecting Dots Between Benefits, Employee Turnover, & Netflix

Connecting Dots Between Benefits, Employee Turnover, & Netflix
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.
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7 New Statistics on the Road Record-Level Turnover Coming

Record-Level Turnover Coming Your Way
So now comes new information in the past seven days that drives home that this wacky idea of 3.2% unemployment by year end is real. And as hard as it is to retain your best current workers, retaining is a better strategy than recruiting…against the headwinds of all that is listed above. How does one recruit better when unemployment is becoming 3.2%? And maybe even worse in your local market?
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How to Measure Employee Engagement

How to measure engagement
Employee engagement is a fuzzy concept that usually generates a fuzzy metric. Most of us conduct employee engagement and we assume the results never vary, that somehow a one-time snapshot on the third Thursday in March reflects how our employees feel about their jobs every day.
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