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Some Employees are Destroying Value. Others are Building It. Do You Know the Difference? | McKinsey Quarterly

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Talent Management

Employee engagement and productivity remain pressing concerns for organizations, especially with ongoing changes in how, when, and where people work. Recent research by McKinsey sheds light on six distinct employee personas, each exhibiting varying levels of satisfaction, engagement, and performance. The archetypes are: 1) The quitters (estimated at around 11%) are those on their way out or already gone. 2) …

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Podcast: How ‘Quiet Quitting’ Is Changing the Workplace | The Wall Street Journal Podcasts

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Podcast | Webinar Workforce Trends

You’ve probably heard or seen the term “quiet quitting” (QQ) being shared across various social media platforms and publications, including this 8-minute Wall Street Journal podcast.  And while there are varying and confusing descriptions of QQ, three main points to sum up this latest workplace buzzword are: 1) Unlike the name suggests, quiet quitting is not about …

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A Measurement Scale of Pre-quitting Behaviors | People + Strategy Journal

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Talent Management

In a post last week, I mentioned that employee retention continues to be a top concern of many leaders. In that post, I shared a template by Jo-Ann Garbutt that includes 18 questions managers can use to raise their awareness of the factors that influence employee retention risk. A few sample questions include: 1) Do I …

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2022 Global Culture Report | O.C. Tanner Institute

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Leadership & Culture

This 174-page report provides a detailed analysis of workplace culture, employee engagement, and employee experience issues from the perspectives of 38,000 employees from 21 countries. The report is full of statistics, including Figure 1 on page 5, showing scores of almost all six essential elements that define thriving cultures fell year after year. These elements relate to an employee’s sense …

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Companies Offer Workers More Time Off to Avoid Burnout | The Washington Post

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Workforce Trends

As I noted in a post about a Gallup report titled, The Wellbeing-Engagement Paradox, more workers report increased engagement while experiencing diminished wellbeing. This article summarizes how a segment of organizations is providing workers with more time off to enable the wellbeing of its workforce and alleviate burnout. For example, Mozilla shut down the entire company for a “Wellness Week.” Bumble also took …

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HR Leaders Monthly – August Issue on Resilience | Gartner

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Leadership & Culture

Resilience—the ability to sustain or grow performance through disruption without damaging workforce health (i.e., the health of individuals, relationships, and the work environment)—is an essential capability for most organizations. As such, many HR strategies focus on helping to build resilience at the individual, team, and organizational levels. In this August 2021 issue of Gartner’s HR Leaders Monthly, eight …

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2021 State of the Global Workplace Report | Gallup

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Workforce Trends

As noted in my article, 2021 HR Trends and Priorities: A Summarized View of 9 Sources, employee/worker well-being (EWB) is a priority for many organizations. And as employers rethink how they can support EWB, this 116-report by Gallup provides insights into the experiences and range of emotions that workers have experienced throughout the pandemic. The report segments …

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Understanding the Range of Emotions Felt by Remote Workers During COVID-19 | The Martec Group

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Workforce Trends

This research explored the range of emotions that workers have experienced while working remotely. It is based on 1,214 employees across different industries, demographics, and seniority levels. One takeaway is that there are four unique worker segments within the remote work audience, ranging from total contentment to complete distress. Perhaps unsurprisingly, each of the four segments …

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Use Stay Interviews and Conversations to Improve Engagement and Retention | Gartner

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Talent Management

Various reports suggest voluntary employee job exits will increase as workers resume job searches put on hold during the height of the pandemic. As firms continue to adjust and reinforce certain talent practices during the pandemic and beyond, one tactic to mitigate unwanted turnover is the “stay interview or conversation.” As noted in this guide, a …

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The Wellbeing-Engagement Paradox of 2020 | Gallup Workplace

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Leadership & Culture

The article notes how employee engagement and wellbeing became disconnected from each other in 2020. While Gallup research has previously shown that engagement and wellbeing are reciprocal (they influence each other) and additive (each makes a unique but complementary contribution to employees’ thoughts, feelings, behaviors, and performance outcomes), new research shows a paradoxical relationship between the …

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