Employers focused only on profit miss what actually keeps employees. Gallup data shows meaningful work ranks in the top two things employees value, with recognition in the top three. Newer generations want purpose, not just a paycheck.
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And so you have to give them a reason to stay at your company. And so I was talking to this, this one president, and I was saying kind of, what, what what is your employee proposition or why? Why does this organization exist? And he said, well, if you ask the the founders, they'll say just to make money. And, and I think, is that going to get your employees excited? You know, yes, every company has to make money, but the generation coming up now is they want to have more purpose than maybe you and I wanted in our jobs at the time. Interesting. And so it's like, how do you give some purpose to people?
Yeah. Yeah. From Gallup polls, meaningful work has always been in the top two, and acknowledgement has always been in the top three.