Recruiting and Team Building in 2021 and Beyond. Get Ready Now. By Tim Brennan, Chief Visionary Officer, FitFirst Technologies, EyePloyment.com
The employment landscape is changing rapidly. Here are 6 actions eye care employers need to do to prepare for the continuing job shortage. Way back in 2019, we were feeling the challenges of recruiting and the last two years have added a whole new wrinkle. Since March of 2020, we have seen significant workplace trends develop including an acceptance of remote working, online meetings, flexible work hours to support home schooling and, overall, a new set of rules and worries – for both employers and employees. For the past 10 years or longer we have been told to prepare for the great resignation/retirement wave that was going to hit the workforce with the baby boomers coming up to 60+ years.
into retirement. It's bigger. People who are leaving their jobs aren’t passively surrendering or checking out. People are actively shifting the narrative about what is acceptable (and not acceptable) in jobs and workplaces. If your star employees have not left yet, they might be “hunkering down” – biding their time, ready to pounce on new opportunities: starting their own business, becoming a freelancer or changing industry and career direction entirely. People are owning their power and helping to reframe mindsets about how work can and should look and feel.
The Pandemic Has Empowered Employees We were starting to feel this back in 2019 but now the pandemic dynamic has been added to what was already happening - people removing themselves from the workplace.
Time. Space. Growth. Autonomy. Leadership. Wellness. Work-life integration. Money. Safety. Engagement. Equity. All of these things are essential to our mutual success. The problem is that employers and employees are not always on the same page about what these things are or ought to be, in policy or practice.
Yes,workersarequittingtheirjobsatunprecedented rates. But here's the thing - what we're seeing right now isn't a generation of workers stepping
So, what does that mean for the Optometry Clinic and Optical? Here is a quick checklist of things you can do to make everything work better. Eye Digest Magazine | 9
