With many positions in high demand and short supply, some organizations are struggling to retain staff members while also attracting new hires. Employee satisfaction depends on several factors—salary, benefits, and scheduling being chief among them. Workplace culture is another, and its effect on...
By this point, you’ve probably heard of “quiet quitting”: the practice of employees doing the bare minimum to keep their jobs without going above and beyond or putting a lot of effort into their responsibilities. While quiet quitting has had a widespread and negative effect on the workplace, some...
In the new virtual workspace, gathering staff in a conference room to recognize a colleague for a job well done with a certificate or a free lunch has become obsolete. Just as many other aspects of the workplace have changed in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, so too have the ways employers...
The Great Resignation isn’t over even though it is subsiding. Despite highly publicized layoffs and fears of an economic downtown, 2022 was a record year for employee resignations. To attract and keep the best talent in a tight labor market, employers must figure out why people are quitting their...
The effects of the labor crisis are still unfolding and new challenges for leaders are emerging every day. Employees turning to ghosts has been on the rise lately. A ghost hire is when you interview a candidate, offer them the job and they accept — and then you never hear from them again! They...
First, understand the purpose of the conversation, which is trickier than it sounds. Your employee blows past a deadline. Again. Or they miss the mark in discussions with a client. Or they are driving their colleagues batty with unprofessional behavior. Whatever the problem, their performance is...
For a number of my executive coaching clients, it’s the time of year when they’re wrapping up annual performance review conversations. As is usually the case, some of those are easy and fun, and others are hard and stress-inducing. Whether they’re part of an annual cycle or, much more usefully, a...
Corporate bosses are getting return-to-office requirements all wrong, global work experts and remote leaders said during a panel conversation at the South by Southwest conference in Austin, Texas, recently. A three-days-a-week requirement has become the norm at many companies, but it’s far from a...
News of layoffs may be grabbing most of the headlines, but another issue is causing waves among workers: companies ordering employees back to the office — even those who promised permanent remote and hybrid arrangements. Amazon, Disney, and Starbucks are just some of the latest employers telling...
The point isn’t asking employees to stay; it’s to discover what dissatisfactions they have that might lead them to leave their current job. Everyone is familiar with “exit interviews,” but the fierce competition for talent is leading many companies to take a more proactive step: “stay interviews.”...
Amazon employees on Tuesday continued to sound off about CEO Andy Jassy’s recently announced return-to-office mandate, including spamming an internal website with messages conveying their opposition to the new policy. Amazon tech workers created a Slack channel and drafted an internal petition...
Career change, promotion, pay, going back to school, and family circumstances are some of the reasons employees voluntarily leave organizations. The Great Resignation continued last year, although at a slower pace than in 2021. About 4 million people quit their jobs in October 2022, the most...