I predict the following:
- Continued employee turnover increases the cost of doing business. Why? lack of training, poor leadership, low accountability, and insufficient compensation/ benefits.
- Continued difficulty attracting new talent makes it hard to succeed with goals as a team, department, division, and the business. Why? Everyone else is also looking for the same employees with those skills. Some companies will win – those with a great culture, good compensation, empathetic leaders, trained managers, and a focus on improving team members not tossing them out.
- Continued quiet quitting, ie: unengaged employees who are simply not managed effectively. This tacks on even more costs of doing business with lower profit results. Why? Managers are thrown into the wolf den (employee management) with no training, coaching, or support, yet insane expectations exist. So managers also leave, or quiet quit too!
- Businesses eventually realize (see above points) that hybrid and remote work options aren’t bad after all; 4-day or other shortened work weeks become the norm. Why? Companies cannot attract and retain and come to understand that the idea of “management by physical closeness” has not/ does not positively change business results. Period.
- Businesses also realize that finger-pointing and blaming “lazy or incompetent employees” wastes time and money. Instead, they begin investing in training all team members, especially managers and other higher-ups. Why? The old adage of ‘it takes money to make money’ is revisited and realized to be true. So is my personal saying, “You might be part of the problem. Be part of the solution.”
- AI is accepted as a business tool, and training is required. Why? See above. we can’t make humans with the KSAs that we need overnight. So, we will lean into technology and AI as a resource.
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Wendy Sellers, The HR Lady® (USA)
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