To keep employees happy, more companies are turning to one-on-one meetings to give key people the chance to talk about what is or isn't working in their current jobs. Americans are walking away from their jobs in record numbers as remote work has uncoupled jobs from geography, and droves of...
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Job Candidates are Ghosting Employers. Here’s How Companies Can Combat No-Shows
Home health provider Interim HealthCare of the Upstate currently has 51 open positions it's looking to fill. Since September, 17 candidates have canceled their interviews and 20 didn't even show up. Recruitment and retention tends to be difficult in the home health care industry, but it's been...
Gifts of the Great Resignation: Evolving the CEO Mindset on Talent
Call it what you will — The Great Resignation, The Great Reframing, The Great Realignment — but know there is something dramatic afoot in the labor market. More Americans are quitting their jobs than ever before. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics tells us that 4.3 million people, fully 2.9% of...
40% of Americans Would Rather Clean Their Toilets Than Commute to Work: Poll
Tens of millions of Americans have strong feelings about not returning to their offices full time—or commuting to get there. How strong? According to a report released today by RingCentral, 40% would rather clean their toilet at home than commute to their brick-and-mortar or other pre-pandemic...
Retirees Are ‘Unretiring’ — and That’s Good for the Labor Market
Key Points The “unretirement” rate, which measures those who switch from retirement to employment, has been accelerating, according to an analysis by Nick Bunker, an economist at Indeed. This is good news for the labor market, and speaks to improving public health and job-related factors like...
Millions of People Quit Their Jobs in the ‘Great Resignation’. Here Is Why It May Not Last Long
Key Points Over the past several months, a rapidly growing number of Americans left their jobs – more than 4.4 million alone in September. The move has become known as the “Great Resignation,” but the picture is more complicated. It all adds up to a jobs market in which people leaving their...
Can Agile Make Wherever You Work a Better Place?
The Great Resignation continues to gather steam as people in their millions re-evaluate their relationship with work. But not everyone has the luxury or the bandwidth to quit, at least not right now. And there is no guarantee that a new job won’t be as much of a soul-destroying destination as your...
Survey Says Older Employees Now Putting Off Retirement Despite the ‘Great Resignation’
While many deal with the “great resignation,” a new study says older workers are actually putting off retirement and staying in their jobs. The survey, conducted by the Nationwide Retirement Institute, says the wave of people quitting recently doesn’t necessarily apply to employees 45 and older....
From the Great Attrition to the Great Adaptation
To keep top talent in the fold, managers must actively change their leadership styles—focusing less on controls and more on culture and connections. In this episode of The McKinsey Podcast, McKinsey experts in talent and organizational health Aaron De Smet and Bill Schaninger join executive editor...
What We are Getting Wrong About the “Great Resignation”
More people are quitting their jobs, and it could shake the world of work forever. But are we making incorrect generalizations about the Great Resignation? Workers are quitting their jobs. A lot of them. So many, in fact, we’re still smack in the middle of the so-called Great Resignation. In the...
6 Reasons Why Americans Aren’t Returning to Work
KEY POINTS Millions of lost positions have yet to return to the job market but there are near-record job openings and job growth has been slower than expected in recent months. Enhanced unemployment benefits ended nationwide on Labor Day, and even sooner in many states. So far, evidence suggests...
Buyers Are Under Pressure to Prove ROI and Other B2B Fallacies
We have heard a lot in the last few years about how the business-to-business (B2B) buyer has changed, but much of what we hear about the ‘changing buyer’ is either not true or not helpful. Former Forrester analyst Kerry Cunningham, and senior principal, product marketing at 6sense, examines what...