I love how Team Business is writing this shit up:
- The appetite for change by employees indicates many professionals are feeling confident about jumping ship for better prospects, despite elevated unemployment rates.
Hey, what does that actually look like? Exactly one paragraph later?
- In March 2020, Edward Moses was hired as an information-technology specialist at a software company, believing he would be part of a team supporting colleagues in four U.S. offices. Instead, after a round of layoffs, he found the team had one member, and he was it. “It was effectively me against the help-desk queue,” the 37-year-old said.
Ain't nobody running the headline
- Jobs Have Turned to Absolute Crap and Everyone Would Rather Take Their Chances
tho.
Like, look at this shit.. "Leisure and Hospitality Wages Are Soaring. It’s the Economy Returning to Normal." Wanna see the graph that came with that article, but doesn't anymore?
"Oh, noes! The proles are trying to keep up with inflation! Fire up the mighty Wurlitzer!"
CBS ran an interesting statistic this morning (i watch the morning news so you don't have to). 1500 "unruly passenger" investigations between 2010 and 2020, 3000 since January 1. And, of course, they follow with a bunch of passengers hog-tying an off-duty flight attendant. Yet the question is "why are we suddenly turning into assholes" rather than "does flying have to suck as hard as it does?"
I keep telling my dad this. He used to own a small business and seems shocked at the possibility of long term work remote. "How do you know people are working?" It doesn't matter. If they aren't getting work done, who cares if it's because they're working 5 hours a day instead of 8 or working the full day but just poor performers? What if someone is doing great work and doing it in 5 hours? Is that so bad? Companies able to make it work will have a bigger talent pool available. For myself, I have a few key criteria for anywhere I might live. Nowhere desert, for one. But if a company in Arizona said I could work remote, suddenly they become an option for me.Remote work also has expanded the recruiting pool for rival companies and technology firms, making employees with digital skills ripe for poaching by employers nationwide, Ms. Patterson said.
I dunno, champ, is the task you hired them for getting done? Made an interesting discovery about my receptionist yesterday. She's not really capable of answering more than 50 phone calls a day. Got data going back three months to prove it. NOW - you could argue that holy shit someone who can't do more than eight phone calls an hour is a shitty receptionist and clearly she needs more managing. OR you could contemplate all the heinously complicated, folkloric dumb shit that goes into managing the communications for a multi-practitioner healthcare facility and recognize that 300 minutes of talk time a day in a 420-minute work day means holy shit when the phones are busy everything else grinds to a halt mebbe we oughtta increase our receptionist count. If you can't tell if your employees are cheating you in this age of radical telemetry I'm sorry, you're a dumbass. Retire. And if you just wanna make sure that you own that person five days a week? Rather than paying them for their effort on your behalf? Apologize first."How do you know people are working?"