Where did all the workers go? The last four reasons there don’t seem to be enough workers
In the first three installments of this series (July 12, Sept 12, and Oct 25), we tried to shine some light on the headscratcher of the year, “Where did everyone go?”, as the labor market certainly feels tighter than ever before, both to employers and consumers. And numbers don’t lie. We still have too many […]
Where Did All the Workers Go? Three More Reasons There Don’t Seem to be Enough Workers
The gap between labor supply and demand continues to vex US employers, even as talk of recession and high profile layoffs pepper the news. And yet as we move into the autumn of 2022, the glaring fact is that there are still many (as in millions) more jobs to be filled than there are people […]
Where Did All the Workers Go?
The severe labor shortage of 2022 has most of us vexed. The question I keep hearing is “Where did everyone go?” If you look deep enough (and I have), the answers present themselves. And it’s not just one thing. Or even two or three. It takes a lot of converging factors to tighten the labor […]
Workforce 2022: What IS the New Normal?
By Bill Catlette and Richard Hadden In a nation weary but not yet free of Covid there is growing consternation, largely in C-suites, over the perceived need to return to “normal”, to life as it used to be; to herd millions of now remotely domiciled (free-range) knowledge workers back into the corporate coop, be it […]
Part Three: Twenty-Seven Things You Can Do Right Now to Win the War for Talent: Retention
OK, I started this series of 3 articles (Part I – Recruiting, Part II – Onboarding, and this third part, on Retention), calling it 27 Things You Can Do Right Now to Win the War for Talent. Forget the 27. It’s more than that. The number doesn’t matter. What I’ve endeavored to do here is […]
Part Two – Twenty-Seven Things You Can Do Right Now to Win the War for Talent – Onboarding
By Richard Hadden and Bill Catlette Onboarding new talent- when done well – is probably the smartest thing you can do to preserve your investment in recruiting (which was the topic of our post on November 26, 2021). In fact, we see onboarding as such a central part of the whole recruiting process, that for […]
Twenty-seven Things You Can Do Right Now to Win the War for Talent – Part One
How about if I don’t start this out by recounting how hard it is to find and keep workers right now? That would be only slightly less useful than an OB/GYN standing over the bed of a woman in the travails of labor, saying, “Let me tell you how bad you hurt.” I’ll also save […]
Time for Some Straight Talk About Returning to Onsite Work
As employers move people back to onsite work, it’s important to consider that this is an employEE’s market, not an employER’s. Swimming against the tide of the asserted will of the labor force will hurt recruiting, retention, and Employee Engagement.
Childcare = Infrastructure
As much as businesses depend upon electricity, reliable digital signal, mail, roads, bridges, and airports to do our thing, we also rely on the availability of talented labor in sufficient quantity to do whatever it is we do. For too long, much of our workforce has seen its availability tightly constrained by reliance on a […]
Getting Serious About Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
In the aftermath of George Floyd’s death, corporate America has professed fresh interest in the subject of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI). I’m heartened by that, and especially so to see former Xerox CEO Ursula Burns lending her considerable voice in this regard https://fortune.com/2020/09/29/ursula-burns-black-women-corporate-boards-bdaa-diversity-inclusion-xerox-ceo/ . Among other things, DEI emphasis has driven renewed calls by […]
