Employee Retention - The Shift from Great Resignation to Big Stay

How Do You Make a Safe Hiring Decision? - Johanna Rothman

Pawel Brodzinski has a terrific LinkedIn post about the value of hiring women. In his experience, they stay longer than the men. That means the investment the company makes in these people has a longer payback time. That's an example of a safe hiring decision. That's been my experience, too. But I didn't just hire for women. I looked for diversity of thought and experience. (Also, for personality diversity. Maybe because I didn't want to be the …

Employee Retention - The Shift from Great Resignation to Big Stay

The U.S. job market has recently undergone mixed trends. The “great resignation” of 2021 and 2022 elevated voluntary departures and then morphed into what some labor economists call the “great stay,” a job market with low levels of hiring, quits and layoffs. In this current state where it’s harsher than historical standards, people feel stuck where they are even if they want to move somewhere else. Companies have been aware, as the recent Linked…