By Mark C. Crowley March 05, 2022 It is rather staggering that nearly 69 million people quit their jobs in America last year—and the common assumption is that everyone who resigned found a new employer willing to give them a meaningful bump in pay. Aligned to this thinking, of course, companies could effectively end … Continue reading It’s not just money. This is what’s still driving the Great Resignation
By Kathleen Davis February 21, 2022 The five-day, 40-hour work week is such an entrenched part of our culture that it’s easy to forget that it’s a relatively recent invention. The Industrial Revolution bore atrocious working conditions, including 12-16 hour days and six-or-seven-day-long work weeks. Then, in 1926, Ford became one … Continue reading Is the 4-day workweek the answer to the Great Resignation?
By Abakar Saidov February 17, 2022 There is no denying that an increase in personal reflections induced by the pandemic, and stay-at-home orders, has had a remarkable impact on the careers of many. Companies saw employees rapidly turning off familiar paths, inspired by less travelled trails, such as wanting to work for a … Continue reading The risks and benefits of rehiring Great Resignation ‘boomerang employees’
By Clint Rainey February 01, 2022 The pandemic is our collective national nightmare, but few professions have been as frontline as America’s public school teachers—essential workers, in enclosed classrooms, filling in for absent colleagues, while also supporting frazzled students. The country’s largest teachers’ union, the National Education Association (NEA), released a new poll today … Continue reading Public schools are facing an existential Great Resignation of teachers
