{"id":288,"date":"2006-09-07T11:35:41","date_gmt":"2006-09-07T16:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/?p=288"},"modified":"2006-09-07T11:35:47","modified_gmt":"2006-09-07T16:35:47","slug":"job-seekers-on-your-payroll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/09\/job-seekers-on-your-payroll\/","title":{"rendered":"Job Seekers On Your Payroll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/mld\/twincities\/business\/15455412.htm?source=rss&#038;channel=twincities_business\" target=\"_blank\">MORE AMERICANS FED UP AT WORK<\/a> (you have to love the capitalization) &#8211; is a throw away propaganda piece but it does contain an interesting set of statistics:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Fifty-eight percent of workers may leave their employer if the economy continues to improve that&#8217;s up 12 percentage points from the 2005 study. Meanwhile, <strong>74 percent say they are actively or passively looking for a new job<\/strong>, and 41 percent of those fessed up to looking for a new job while at work, up from 39 percent last year. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We have beat this drum for some time but it is always worth revisiting. The modern worker is easily connected to job opportunities without much effort. Worker mobility is simply increasing every year as the economy expands dramatically.<\/p>\n<p>Another interesting statistic from the survey:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Itkin said employees believe they are working hard but are under appreciated. Eighty percent of respondents indicated they wanted to be appreciated, yet <strong>only 36 percent thought their employers appreciated them<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Underappreciation is the main item that drives employees to other opportunities. Interestingly, it is also the number 1 reason why companies lose customers &#8211; the customer no longer feels appreciated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article &#8211; MORE AMERICANS FED UP AT WORK (you have to love the capitalization) &#8211; is a throw away propaganda piece but it does contain an interesting set of statistics: Fifty-eight percent of workers may leave their employer if the economy continues to improve that&#8217;s up 12 percentage points from the 2005 study. Meanwhile, 74 percent say they are actively or passively looking for a new job, and 41 percent of those fessed up to looking for a new job while at work, up from 39 percent last year. We have beat this drum for some time but it is always worth revisiting. The modern worker is easily connected&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/09\/job-seekers-on-your-payroll\/\">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_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":[2,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hiring","category-trends"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-4E","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2064,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2009\/07\/the-age-of-ageism\/","url_meta":{"origin":288,"position":0},"title":"The Age Of Ageism","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"July 13, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"I was at a networking group last week where I was able to talk to some jobseekers in a general format.\u00a0 One of the things that consistently surfaced was the perception from older workers that they were being discriminated against due to their age. I don\u2019t know if these accusations\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Economy&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Economy","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/economy\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1230,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/10\/what-not-to-do-at-work\/","url_meta":{"origin":288,"position":1},"title":"What Not To Do At Work","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"October 10, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Ok, I have a weakness for these types of surveys.\u00a0 From CareerBuilder: \"Workplace Taboos\" is a new CareerBuilder.com survey, conducted by Harris Interactive of more than 5,700 workers. 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In spite of the drastic effects of the economy on the labor market with announced workforce reductions up\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Compensation&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Compensation","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/compensation\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2357,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2010\/06\/take-this-job-and\/","url_meta":{"origin":288,"position":4},"title":"Take This Job And","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"June 25, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"shove it\u2026apparently.\u00a0 The Herman Trend offers up some stats that may catch you by surprise (emphasis mine): It is interesting to note that in the United States more people quit their jobs in the last three months than those who lost their jobs. After 15 straight months of time in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Economy&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Economy","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/economy\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2472,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2011\/01\/how-to-tell-you-are-in-a-bad-economy\/","url_meta":{"origin":288,"position":5},"title":"How To Tell You Are In A Bad Economy","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"January 20, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"From the Herman Trend Alert (emphasis mine): In December, companies with fewer than 300 employees experienced employment growth of 1.54 percent, representing the largest percentage increase since June 2010. 1.54 percent?\u00a0 That is encouraging?\u00a0 I know, I realize there has been little to no growth, but 1.54 percent is almost\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Economy&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Economy","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/economy\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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