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7 Top Job Satisfaction Statistics You Need to Know

15Five

Increased productivity: An employee who doesn’t feel satisfied at work is more likely to do the bare minimum to get by instead of going the extra mile. No matter what you’re providing and where those employees are in the supply chain, their work will have an impact on the end product and how the customer feels about it.

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How to Solve Hiring Problems in Manufacturing with Employee Recognition

Semos Cloud

After the 2008 recession, the trade deficit skyrocketed and the number of blue-collar workers fell from 24.6 As more workers migrated to white-collar jobs, and seasoned professionals move closer to retirement, the entire manufacturing sector faces an unprecedented number of missing laborers. In 1970, blue-collar jobs in the US were 31.2

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How Different Age Groups Define “Company Culture”

Reflektive

Everyone agrees a healthy corporate culture is important and results in happy, productive employees. They’re also the generation closest to retirement, with 70 million boomers expected to exit the workforce by 2020. Perks like office size, parking access, and flexible healthcare/retirement plans are also motivators.

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How To Gain Peace of Mind Over Your Retirement Strategy In Volatile Times

Thrive Global

After the past year and a half of wild swings in financial markets brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic and then ensuing economic recovery, one wouldn’t be blamed for feeling uncertainty about whether they have the right retirement strategy to weather any other curveballs the market may throw. What are your expenses going to be?

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Do You See Meaning In Your Job? These Employees Do. - DecisionWise

DecisionWise

Others look beyond the daily tasks and see more in the end product, user, or outcome of their jobs. Just as an IRS agent was working through her case and the client thought it would be over, the IRS agent would be transferred, or would retire, etc. They see MEANING in their work. and she had to start all over again.

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Retirement Planning: The Gender Gap Persists

HRExecutive

A quick search of our website, using the terms “women” and “retirement,” brings back an article from August 2008 that describes retirement planning as “a nightmare for many women.”. In examining the retirement saving and investing behaviors of roughly 3.5 In other words, the story remains largely the same.

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Filling a Skills Gap in Manufacturing

ExactHire

The Slow Recovery of Manufacturing Manufacturing companies were the first to feel the pain from the Great Recession with a crash in production. But while manufacturing production rebounded sharply at the official end of the recession in June 2009, the lost jobs did not return as quickly.