{"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":"https:\/\/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=\"https:\/\/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_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":[2,16,23,5,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hiring","category-hiring-salespeople","category-retention","category-trends","category-turnover"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-9I","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1096,"url":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/07\/telecommuting-is-becoming-an-expected-perk\/","url_meta":{"origin":602,"position":0},"title":"Telecommuting Is Becoming An Expected Perk","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"July 27, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"We have been discussing telecommuting in the sales world over the past year and have seen it appear in our sourcing efforts as a common topic. Inc.com looks into this trend in their article The Benefits of Telecommuting. The focus of the article is in the realm of IT professionals.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Hiring&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Hiring","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/hiring\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":191,"url":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/07\/biggest-employee-time-wasters\/","url_meta":{"origin":602,"position":1},"title":"Biggest Employee Time Wasters","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"July 26, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Salary.com has a great article called Wasted Time At Work Still Costing Companies Billions in 2006. 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Employees spend an average of 1.86 hours per eight-hour workday on something other than their jobs, not including lunch and scheduled breaks, the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Sales Management&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Sales Management","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/sales-management\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":443,"url":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/11\/one-of-them-must-be-wrong\/","url_meta":{"origin":602,"position":3},"title":"One of Them Must Be Wrong","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"November 16, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"A quote from my post on Tuesday: And don't assume its about money. When someone quits her job, 89 percent of managers assume it was over money, whereas 91 percent of the workers who quit say it was anything but, Murphy said. From a CareerJournal article titled Opportunity Knocks, And\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Retention&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Retention","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/retention\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1311,"url":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/11\/candidates-are-negotiating-offers\/","url_meta":{"origin":602,"position":4},"title":"Candidates Are Negotiating Offers","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"November 29, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"No surprise here but the Career News is reporting that candidates are negotiating for higher starting salaries in this current market (emphasis mine):\u00a0 Job candidates are more apt to ask for higher starting salaries this coming year, and companies may have to up the ante to attract them. That's according\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Compensation&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Compensation","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/compensation\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":615,"url":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/01\/the-right-way-to-share-profits\/","url_meta":{"origin":602,"position":5},"title":"The Right Way To Share Profits","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"January 30, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Andersen Corp. (window makers) is a well-known employer up here in the Twin Cities whose business has slowed down greatly with the housing slow down. Nonetheless, the company is still issuing profit sharing checks for all of its eligible employees (22% of their salaries!). The part that caught my eye:\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Compensation&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Compensation","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/compensation\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/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. 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