Employers Warned that Workers Might Bail Next Year

December 9th, 2009. By janem

If some employers gaze into their crystal balls about now, they might want to start treating their workers better because 60 percent of employees intend to pursue new job opportunities now that the economic downturn is on an upswing.

According to a survey by Right Management Inc. that polled 904 North American workers, 21 percent said they “might” look for a new job and another 6 percent said a career move is unlikely, but they’ve updated their resumes anyway. So that leaves only 13 percent who intend to stay where they are. “Employees are clearly expressing their pent-up frustration with how they have been treated through the downturn,” said Right Management president Douglas Matthews.

Given those statistics, it’s gonna be interesting to see how many employees will stay loyal to a company that laid them off or basically took advantage of the economic climate to not pay overtime and other benefits.

Right Management also surveyed over 1,000 US employers and discovered that 9 out of 10 companies are willing to rehire former workers, mainly because they are “familiar with the jobs and the organizational culture”.

Maybe rogue employers should start paying overtime compensation. And they might have to dangle a pretty big carrot to get their former employees back…

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