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.
