Are you prepared for the ‘Great Detachment’? The new trend harming your business

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Employees’ dissatisfaction with work and their desire to leave their jobs are at their highest levels in a decade, according to a recent Gallup survey of 22,000 U.S. employees.

Company leaders will have a difficult time retaining and attracting employees through this Great Detachment — as Gallup calls it — if they don’t do a better job of setting clear expectations and inspiring employees with a mission they can get behind, says Ben Wigert, Gallup’s director of research and strategy for workplace management in Omaha, Nebraska.

Keith Button
Freelance Writer

Keith Button is a freelance writer based in Valley Cottage, New York.


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