{"id":602,"date":"2007-01-24T12:04:23","date_gmt":"2007-01-24T18:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/01\/employee-retention-wake-up-call-part-2\/"},"modified":"2007-01-24T12:05:26","modified_gmt":"2007-01-24T18:05:26","slug":"employee-retention-wake-up-call-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/01\/employee-retention-wake-up-call-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Employee Retention Wake-Up Call &#8211; Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of months ago we <a href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/11\/employee-retention-wake-up-call\/\" target=\"_blank\">posted<\/a> on an article from the Pioneer Press titled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/mld\/twincities\/business\/15997792.htm?source=rss&#038;channel=twincities_business\" target=\"_blank\">Speaking Up Helps Keep Star Workers.<\/a> One of the surprising findings was that 47% of the 16,273 stellar workers surveyed are mailing out resumes, going on job interviews, even contemplating other offers.<\/p>\n<p>I just recently caught up to an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.workforce.com\/section\/16\/feature\/24\/62\/64\/246266.html\" target=\"_blank\">article from a WorkForce Management newsletter<\/a> of a survey Yahoo HotJobs conducted on 5,300 people. They found that nearly two-thirds are open to switching jobs, with an improving job market cited as the chief cause for such optimism. Here are some interesting points they found:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>39% cited unhappiness with wages as the chief issue<\/li>\n<li>75% cited 2006 raises or bonuses were below their expectations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So where is retention on your list of priorities? You may want to put some thought into it because it is a safe bet that more than half of your employees are looking for new opportunities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of months ago we posted on an article from the Pioneer Press titled Speaking Up Helps Keep Star Workers. One of the surprising findings was that 47% of the 16,273 stellar workers surveyed are mailing out resumes, going on job interviews, even contemplating other offers. I just recently caught up to an article from a WorkForce Management newsletter of a survey Yahoo HotJobs conducted on 5,300 people. They found that nearly two-thirds are open to switching jobs, with an improving job market cited as the chief cause for such optimism. Here are some interesting points they found: 39% cited unhappiness with wages as the chief issue 75% cited&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/01\/employee-retention-wake-up-call-part-2\/\">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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,16,23,5,22],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-9I","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602"}],"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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->