{"id":294,"date":"2006-09-12T09:11:26","date_gmt":"2006-09-12T14:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/?p=294"},"modified":"2006-09-12T09:12:04","modified_gmt":"2006-09-12T14:12:04","slug":"employee-satisfaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/09\/employee-satisfaction\/","title":{"rendered":"Employee Satisfaction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I always seem to get drawn into articles with lots of stats in them. I came across 2 short, but interesting articles in last week&#8217;s newsletter from Workforce Management.<\/p>\n<p>The first article was from a survey conducted by human resources firm Adecco North America. In the article, they cite increased stress stemming from putting in longer hours at work. It finds that about <strong>29% of employees report logging longer hours than they did a year ago<\/strong>, with a reported 32% experiencing on-the-job stress.<\/p>\n<p>The second article was from Kronos Inc. and Harris Interactive. Their joint survey that employees who are satisfied with their employer are more apt to extend themselves beyond the call of duty. The survey found that a whopping <strong>82% of satisfied workers<\/strong> say they would be willing to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Couple of interesting points of information.  It makes one wonder how many workers are truly satisfied where they are today?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I always seem to get drawn into articles with lots of stats in them. I came across 2 short, but interesting articles in last week&#8217;s newsletter from Workforce Management. The first article was from a survey conducted by human resources firm Adecco North America. In the article, they cite increased stress stemming from putting in longer hours at work. It finds that about 29% of employees report logging longer hours than they did a year ago, with a reported 32% experiencing on-the-job stress. The second article was from Kronos Inc. and Harris Interactive. Their joint survey that employees who are satisfied with their employer are more apt to extend themselves&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/09\/employee-satisfaction\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trends"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-4K","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1245,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/10\/news-alert-most-employees-faking-sick-days\/","url_meta":{"origin":294,"position":0},"title":"News Alert: Most Employees Faking Sick Days","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"October 18, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Ok, it is a cheeky title to this post, but I recently read this Inc.com article - Big Surprise: Most Workers Faking Sick Days (see, Inc.com started it).\u00a0 In case you had any doubt: ...most workers who call in sick at the last minute aren't\u00a0really sick. ... 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Inside, I found a complimentary copy of a monthly newsletter from Lawrence Ragan Communications\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Hiring&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Hiring","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/hiring\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":248,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/08\/the-6-hour-workday\/","url_meta":{"origin":294,"position":2},"title":"The 6 Hour Workday","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"August 22, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Price Tag for Lost Productivity: $544 Billion. I'm always intrigued about how these calculations are made through a simple survey. How about some stats from the article? 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An additional 23% say their boss is doing a \"fair\" job, and 10% find their manager is doing\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Communication&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Communication","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/communication\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":288,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/09\/job-seekers-on-your-payroll\/","url_meta":{"origin":294,"position":4},"title":"Job Seekers On Your Payroll","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"September 7, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"This article - MORE AMERICANS FED UP AT WORK (you have to love the capitalization) - 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's up 12 percentage points\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Hiring&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Hiring","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/hiring\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":623,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/02\/stats-on-gen-y-web-use\/","url_meta":{"origin":294,"position":5},"title":"Stats On Gen Y Web Use","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"February 1, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Inc.com's article Seven Out of 10 Employees Admit to Abusing Office Computers, Phones relays some stats from a recent Harris Interactive survey. 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