THE DAMNING DATA
- Up to 28% of employees change their employer every year
- The average stay with individual employers is around 5 years
- Employees can have at least 10 different employers in a working lifetime
- Employers therefore have NO long-term or medium-term memory and
- Only a disconnected short-term memory: medics have a word for it – dementia
WHERE YOU CAN MAKE THE DIFFERENCE
You induct your new employees to familiarise them with your different work environment. It’s a teaching process for you and a learning process for them. The reciprocal process enables them to more effectively apply their outside knowledge and experience to your different environment.
To be fully effective, all depends on the amount of corporate and job-related detail that you hand over. That’s because everything they bring with them has to be synced with your special way of doing things. Typically, the handover detail that induction delivers is the anatomical equivalent of your corporate bones.
Provide the meat and your new employees will be able to make good and even better decisions.
THE BIGGER PICTURE
The workplace is where productivity lives and breathes. With flexible working impacting EVERY employer across the entire industrial spectrum continuously, it is as macro-economic as the other corporate resources that the experts have identified as affecting productivity. It is the biggest unacknowledged explanation for our struggling productivity growth – and needs to be attended, starting with individual employers.
