A few months ago I wrote a blog with the heading “85% of your staff want to leave you” which was based on research of over 18,000 staff globally. I received some interesting comments from my clients. Well now there is more evidence that supports this research
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We all know how successful Facebook has been over the past few years and this has a lot to do with the quality of the staff who work there. We have a saying “Companies don’t succeed, the people do.” This would be very apt for Facebook, who
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We all know the challenges with recruiting and retaining the best staff. They are hard to find and what do we even look for? I was appalled to read a recent survey carried out by a company called engaged Marketing here in Australia, who found out that
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I came across this staggering statistic in a recent article I read. 85%, can’t be, don’t they mean the opposite – 85% want to stay with their current employer? But no, I was reading it right. Included in this figure are employees actively looking for a new
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Staff turnover is a substantial cost to every business, estimated to be at least a person’s annual salary and with the average being 2.5 times annual salary it is costly making mistakes and getting the wrong people. Some recent research by Price Waterhouse Coopers (PWC) found Australia
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We all know that recruiting the right people is critical if you want your business to survive and grow in today’s tough retail environment. I find one of the biggest issues is retailers with the wrong staff with poor attitudes, giving off the strong vibe that they don’t
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I always talk to my clients about the importance of recruiting the right people. The cost of getting it wrong is substantial – this cost is at least a person’s salary and can be up to 3 times their salary. Well one company who is serious about
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