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Business management Learning for loyalty
The old mantra of ‘a job for life’ is dead and buried – or that’s the claim. But with corporations eager to keep workers loyal, especially with staffi ng shortages and unpredictable labour markets, many are increasingly investing in training and further education opportunities. Ellys Woodhouse speaks to Jennifer Curtis from Schneider Electric, as well as Nicki Hay of DHL Supply Chain, to learn how personalised career development can bolster life for workers and managers alike.
an you believe it’s almost four years since the arrival of Covid-19? If you consider how much the workplace has changed, it may as well have been four decades. Following all the twists and turns of the market during that time, it likens itself to a TV show – except one where the ‘Covid season’ has been playing on fast forward. This was obviously true for businesses as a whole – there were the immediate, practical requirements for corporates to reassess and accommodate for lockdowns and social distancing – yet the pandemic
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also saw many employees question their own job prospects and priorities: leading to record high numbers of voluntary leavers. Quickly gaining the moniker of the ‘Great Resignation’ for good reason, the US alone saw 47 million people quit in 2021 and 50 million more in 2022, according to data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Yet if the instability of the pandemic forced many to question and reprioritise their job prospects, the volatility in the economic market during the subsequent recovery has catapulted the trend
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