07/22/2024

What Top Employees Need from Leaders

Many people leaving jobs resent how they were treated - real or imagined

None dare call it the Great Resignation Part 2, but employees are getting restless again.

According to a recent Gallup survey, more than half of U.S. workers (51 percent) say they’re considering looking for a new job. People aren’t leaving their jobs at the rates they were a few years ago, but as a report on the survey notes, “employees’ long-term commitment to their organizations is currently the lowest it has been in nine years.”

That softness in the workforce doesn’t appear to have so much to do with economic anxiety or return-to-the-office resentment, two of the biggest hot-button workforce issues during the pandemic. Rather, it seems interpersonal dynamics are playing a strong role: Gallup found that 42 percent of those who voluntarily left their jobs in the past year said leadership could have done something to keep them—but did not.

Please select this link to read the complete article from Associations Now.