Over on the Compensation Force Blog, Ann Bares references a recent Economic Anxiety in the Workplace poll in which close to 1,500 professionals responded to the question “What, if any, actions has your organization’s leadership taken to respond to the economic anxiety in the workplace?
- 21% said there had been “briefings by leadership on the organization’s economic health”
- 13% responded that there had been “briefings by leadership on the economic crisis”
- 13% said that managers had had “conversations with employees on economic anxiety”
- 46% responded that organizational leadership had taken “no action as of today”
After a layoff, many people report that the most difficult part of the experience was not the layoff itself, but rather the uncertainty they felt before the layoff occurred. Straight communication is easy when times are good; it’s more difficult, but even more important when times are bad. What’s the climate like at your organization and how is management responding to the current economic crisis?