How many people do you know or have heard about that have quit jobs because of the work environment? Many of these people are hard workers, but now in having the opportunity to stay home for awhile, have had time to reflect and rethink work.
Many people who quit jobs did so not only because of stimulus checks or collecting unemployment during the pandemic, but because they realize the job they were at was a miserable soul sucking experience that they no longer had to put up with.
Gallup research tells us that approximately 70% of the time when people quit, it is due to the manager or supervisor and the environment that was created as a result of their lack of leadership, their treatment of them and/or others, unrealistic expectations, or poor people skills. For some the environment lacked purpose or meaning and others simply felt so unappreciated or taken advantage of that they too decided the paycheck was no longer worth it.
Still others were asked to put their own lives at risk in service to others during a pandemic with so many unknowns to health and safety, and employers who were not willing to put employee safety first may have contributed also to the throngs of people leaving their traditional employment in search of greener pastures or just some badly needed rest.
If you are a store owner, or organizational leader, what can you do to turn the tides, that when the employee pool begins to return you can become the irresistible place to work? In other words why would anyone want to work for you and your business? You must be able to answer that from the employee experience perspective.
