Glassdoor predicts the top 4 workplace trends for 2022

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Instability has been the recurring theme of the last 22 months, and that doesn’t seem to be changing as we enter the third year of the pandemic.

Employers want to enter 2022 as prepared as possible to take on the challenges plaguing the workforce, including stress, burnout and financial uncertainty, as well as companies’ own struggles with employee attraction and retention.

“Many of the reasons why hiring was difficult in 2021 are going to stick with us in 2022 —the most obvious reason is that the pandemic is still going on,” Zhao says. “There’s this disconnect between employers and employees, because employers feel like we’re not too far removed from the recession, so it should be easy to hire. But in actuality, we’ve sped right past that phase of the recession, and we’re now solidly in the expansion phase, where demand is high. And that means that there’s going to be a continuing imbalance between the demand for workers and supply of workers.”

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Amanda Schiavo
Associate Editor

Amanda Schiavo is an associate editor of Employee Benefit News. Follow her on Twitter at @SchiavoAmanda.


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