It’s not me, it’s you. Right?
At least that’s what employers and employees keep telling themselves. So much unhappiness, like a terminal relationship enabling one another to barely function and just get by day to day in the world of work.
Survey after survey after survey tells us how 98.5 percent of the workforce is disengaged and feels disenfranchised, with one person doing the work of 10 men (and women) today. Okay, maybe not that high, but it’s high and you’ve most likely seen all the research and other insightful analyses.
It’s so high that none of us in the HR business can argue that something isn’t perilously wrong. Read more…
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