Motivation & Retention

Research: 3 Employee Experiences Most Likely to Drive Retention

Jan. 30, 2024 (Oakland, Calif.) – What experiences predict whether your employees are going to quit or stay? New data from Great Place To Work® reveals three experiences that are highly correlated with employees wanting to stay with their company long-term. In a survey of more than 1.3 million U.S. employees, workers were: These three experiences…

3 reasons why new tradespeople don’t stick around

Fulton Cure is a quality control manager at Jordan Foster Construction’s Dallas, Texas, office. Opinions are the author’s own. I have a few theories about why we are having such a difficult time acquiring, and retaining, labor in the trades.  The labor market is skewed heavily in the face of a turning point that we…

The number of highly paid remote and hybrid job openings fell at the end of 2023

Data from high-paying jobs board Ladders, which focuses on jobs that earn more than $100,000 a year, found between the third and fourth quarters of 2023, the total number of highly paid remote job postings fell by about 12%. Highly paid hybrid jobs also dropped 69% during the same time while in-person jobs increased 93%….

Workers who get promoted are more likely to leave a company than those who don’t, ADP report reveals

Workers who get promoted are more likely to leave the company than those who did not — but luckily for managers, there’s a fix for that. The findings, from a new Today at Work report by payroll provider ADP, stem from data on 25 million workers and a decade of structured surveys. The results paint…

Why do employees quit? It’s not always bad bosses.

Employees don’t just quit bad bosses — they also quit bad companies. That’s one of the big takeaways from Payscale Inc.’s first Retention Report, which analyzed crowdsourced data from thousands of workers across five years. It showed workers are more likely to leave jobs at companies with poor future prospects and for better or fairer pay. The…

2023 School Guide rankings: Southwestern Pennsylvania’s top-scoring school districts

For the fourth time in a row, Upper St. Clair School District is No. 1 on the Business Times’ Honor Roll ranking of regional school districts, part of the 2023 Guide to Southwestern Pennsylvania Schools. The ranking looks at three years of state standardized test scores and ranks 105 regional school districts from highest scoring…

Competitors are still trying to poach your talent. This factor may determine if they listen

The turnover tsunami may have eased over the past year, but employers still need to be vigilant when it comes to competitors poaching their talent. That’s according to the 2023 Trends Report from Quantum Workplace, which partners with The Business Journals on Best Places to Work programs around the nation.  Based on surveys with thousands of workers, Quantum found…

Lack of care for employees fuels Great Resignation

The Great Resignation, quiet quitting and labor hoarding are among workplace trends ignited by a perceived lack of care by employees, according to MetLife’s “US Employee Benefit Trends” survey released today. Nearly half of the employees surveyed, 42%, said they do not feel cared for by their employers. “Our research shows care is not only…

Pay Transparency Laws: What You Need To Know

In the United States, people don’t usually discuss their salaries with coworkers. However, pay transparency laws are changing in many states, and more pay transparency can help employers and employees. Here’s some more information about pay transparency, its benefits, pay transparency laws, and how to improve pay transparency. What is pay transparency? Pay transparency can…