{"id":2416,"date":"2010-08-31T07:31:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-31T12:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2010\/08\/what-employees-want\/"},"modified":"2010-08-31T07:09:32","modified_gmt":"2010-08-31T12:09:32","slug":"what-employees-want","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2010\/08\/what-employees-want\/","title":{"rendered":"What Employees Want"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am usually a bit cynical regarding these types of articles.\u00a0 My reasoning is this \u2013 each individual is unique in their motivations and rewards.\u00a0 Attempting to place employees into set categories regarding global characterizations is a stretch.\u00a0 Nonetheless, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inc.com\/guides\/2010\/08\/10-things-employees-want.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+inc%2Fheadlines+%28Inc.com+Headlines%29\" target=\"_blank\">this article from Inc.com<\/a> presents some excellent points and advice for employee engagement.<\/p>\n<p>I do not believe you can overstate this one:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>5. Employees want flexibility.<\/strong> In addition to deciding how they work, the experts say employees also appreciate having a say over when they work. Gunther has, of course, set up a radically flexible schedule for his employees that might not work for every office. But, he says, it has enabled him to find and retain top talent for Meddius. &#8220;We&#8217;ve had people who have taken significant pay cuts to work for us, because at their old job they were told to show up and be at the office between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m.,&#8221; he says. &#8220;Generation Y is looking for a synergy between their personal lives and their professional lives.&#8221; Set up a flexible vacation policy or a telecommuting policy that enables employees to work from home. It involves a great deal of trust, but, as Pink says, &#8220;If you don&#8217;t trust your employees, you&#8217;ve got much bigger problems.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This recession has lowered the drive for some employees on this topic, but it is still prevalent among the younger workers.\u00a0 I love the last line as it is absolute truth.<\/p>\n<p>I think the older generation has a palpable difficulty with telecommuting.\u00a0 My discussions with many Boomer-aged managers have included comments basically stating that to be effective in the role, they have to be in the office every day.\u00a0 My take on that commentary is that the manager is projecting their own approach into the position.\u00a0 <em>They<\/em> may struggle in a remote role, but I\u2019m not convinced that is always the case with the younger generations.<\/p>\n<p>There are 9 other interesting points in the article so I recommend you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inc.com\/guides\/2010\/08\/10-things-employees-want.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+inc%2Fheadlines+%28Inc.com+Headlines%29\" target=\"_blank\">read the entire thing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am usually a bit cynical regarding these types of articles.\u00a0 My reasoning is this \u2013 each individual is unique in their motivations and rewards.\u00a0 Attempting to place employees into set categories regarding global characterizations is a stretch.\u00a0 Nonetheless, this article from Inc.com presents some excellent points and advice for employee engagement. I do not believe you can overstate this one: 5. Employees want flexibility. In addition to deciding how they work, the experts say employees also appreciate having a say over when they work. Gunther has, of course, set up a radically flexible schedule for his employees that might not work for every office. But, he says, it has&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2010\/08\/what-employees-want\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[29,4,11],"tags":[642,1637,72,598,213,97,392],"class_list":["post-2416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-generations","category-sales-management","category-team-management","tag-baby-boomer","tag-employee-engagement","tag-gen-y","tag-managing-employees","tag-sales-manager","tag-select-metrix","tag-telecommute"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-CY","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":383,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/10\/how-to-retain-employees\/","url_meta":{"origin":2416,"position":0},"title":"How To Retain Employees","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"October 20, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Earlier this week we posted on employee turnover via a survey that found 75% of jobseekers believe they will find greater career success elsewhere. 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Yet, it is surprising how\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Sales Management&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Sales Management","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/sales-management\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":517,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/12\/a-failure-to-communicate\/","url_meta":{"origin":2416,"position":4},"title":"A Failure To Communicate","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"December 20, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"From salary.com: 82% of managers believe they provide clear goals to their employees prior to their formal performance review, but only 46% of employees say the same. Nearly half of the employees surveyed said their performance has at some time been reviewed against goals that were not previously communicated. 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