Ernest Blogging and Vlogging

The 2009 edition of the annual job satisfaction survey conducted by The Conference Board, showed that 22 percent of respondents said they don’t expect to be in their current job in a year. 

In Addition, only 45 percent of Americans said they were satisfied with their jobs, which is a major drop from the 61 percent who said they were satisfied in 1987.  While the most recent economic downturn had something to do with it, this is has been a long term trend. See Chart 1 and 4 below.

This sentiment was crystal clear with the three HR professionals I had dinner with last night.  Here’s the story:

Part of the solution is  to engage top talent and find out how they are doing, reassess the work load of your employees, hire if needed….

Source of Data:
I Can’t Get No…Job Satisfaction, That Is: America’s Unhappy Workers
Research Report #1459-09-RR
The Conference Board