Jessica Dickler of CNN reports from a recent survey by job-placement firm Manpower that 84% of employees are thinking of searching for a new job in 2011, as compared to just 60% a year ago.
Douglas Matthews, president and chief operating officer for Right Management, a division of Manpower, called the results "a wake-up call to management. ... This finding is more about employee dissatisfaction and discontent than projected turnover".
So employers have a problem: they risk losing their best employees because they are the ones likely to be successful in the job hunt.
But the workers also have a problem. Their problem is that when only one in five workers is fully engaged in his or her work the likelihood of those 84% finding a satisfying job is low. When most jobs suck, changing jobs isn't an answer.
Nor do politicans have any reason to be complacent. When 84% of workers are unhappy in their work and can't find any reasonable alternative, while a sizable slice of the workforce is either unemployed, underemployed or on the cusp of losing their job, the potential for social and political unrest is significant.
The message for employers, employees and politicians is clear: we need to revolutionize the workplace.
Read the full article here.
Wake up call to Leaders for 2010
Posted by: JenniferHaus | December 29, 2010 at 02:03 AM
My take is that the problem is not so much that Agile and Scrum don't t scale. We now have many examples of large-scale implementations of Agile.
Posted by: Coach Outlet | April 14, 2012 at 11:25 AM