55% of Employees Are Unhappy in Their Jobs

Jan 5

The Conference Board’s survey of employee happiness showed there ain’t much joy in Mudville. Employees are the unhappiest they’ve been in the 22 years that The Conference Board has been studying worker attitudes.

1) How’s that employee engagement stuff working out?
2) If you aren’t keeping your employees engaged, watch out when the market improves.
3) Unhappiness is contagious.

About the Author
Frank Roche

Frank started IFRACTAL over 7 years ago with Sarah Chambers. Together, they've created HR communications and HR software for some of the world's leading companies. Frank is also studying Flamenco guitar and origami.

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  1. Gil says:

    No kidding. “People are parts” is back in vogue. We have degenerated to the 1950′s management style of comand and control. Only in todays world loyality and paternalism are dead and replaced by cover your ass mentality.

    • Frank Roche says:

      @Gil I’m afraid at the bad companies that’s what’s happened. The good ones that continued to treat employees with respect will be scooping up talent by the bucketload when the Great Talent Migration happens.

  2. Lindsay says:

    More of this info on http://gneil.blogspot.com

    You’d think that people would have woken up by now…real simple formula…you treat people like garbage, they do garbage work. And as soon as jobs are available, they are outta there. Some people just need their stupid sign!

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