Study shows a ???% of employees are disengaged and ready to jump ship!
If you’re at work, look around. Who is smiling? Who is not? Who looks, well…… just plain pissed off?
A recent survey by Right Management shows an alarming statistic regarding the percentage of people who are so frustrated with their current position and company that they are ready to jump ship. Do you think that number is:
- 25%
- 60%
- 82%
- 41%
The number is 60%. And while turnover might be a good thing in bringing about innovation and creativity, imagine losing 60% of your team. Imagine if 60% of your people needed to be replaced next year? Do you have the manpower to take on this task? Think about how much time, training, $$$, and energy this is going to take.
But worse yet, imagine the 40% who remain and need to pick up the workload while the interview process drags on to replace 60% of their peers. Yikes!
Frightening thought? It should be. And it should not be taken lightly.
But there is another solution………….
Start reinvesting (right now) in your current talent. It’s beyond the 11th hour here. Companies need to do something. Here are a few immediate and easy to implement ideas to instantly begin to re-engage employees:
- Communicate openly about what is going on in the company
- Offer some training and professional development.
- Institute some fun - and fast
- Rethink that cancelled holiday party (see my post of Nov 16)
- Act now on employee work and lifestyle concerns and determine ways to address and accommodate
- Set clear career path plans with as many people as possible and take immediate and regular steps to ensure they are met
- Download and distribute (even to your friends in other companies) my free 2 page document on what employees and managers are looking for in one another. Click here
Now stop reading and get to work. The person to your right and your left are thinking of leaving. Or maybe you are??
