New Survey Sheds Light On How Employers Might Better Retain Workers.
US employees who voluntarily left their job within the past year explain why.
This one isn't peer reviewed, but I wanted to include it nonetheless.
A Gallup poll conducted in May asked 717 employees in the USA who voluntarily left their workplace within the past 12 months about their experience.
When asked if there was anything their employer could have done to preclude their decision to resign, participants gave the following answers, also shown in the bar graph below.
provide better compensation or benefits (30%)
create more positive interactions with manager, such as listening and communication (21%)
address frustrating organizational issues (13%)
create opportunities for career advancement (11%)
improve staffing or workload concerns (9%)
The article references previous Gallup research showing that helpful conversations between managers and staff members don't need to be longer than 15 to 30 minutes, when had on a regular basis.
Source:
“42% of Employee Turnover is Preventable But Often Ignored.” Corey Tatel & Ben Wigert. July 10, 2024, Gallup.
I left voluntarily my 9 to 5 job in September. I had actually already made up my mind, but I was still open to consider a part time option, which regrettably was not possible in that company. So, here I am, actually more satisfied than before in my corporate job. There are many way employers could keep their people, but not always they wish to put these in practice.
What is glaringly overlooked here is simply a fair share for everyone. Instead of a hierarchical system that benefits a few at the top while others actually work, what if everyone in a company made the same amount of money? I think, in a corporation the janitor should make as much or more as the CEO. Without the janitor, there is no morale or even a functional environment, but the CEO probably does very little except narcotics and play golf. There is an undeniable dissatisfaction with our current system of essentially, hierarchical slavery. It's always the same, a few profit off the many. Universal living wage is a nice idea, but this is only a start. We, collectively, need to rethink our economy, how and why people labor, and what everyone "deserves."