Mike DomitrzPresident, Author, and Speaker on Respect, The Center for Respect, Inc. · Author & Speaker on Respect for Schools, Corporations, & the Military since 1990 (has reached

Treat people with respect in the workplace at all times.

14 Sept 2023 · 1 min

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In this brief YouTube monologue, the speaker cites Harvard Business Review research from 2015‑2016 showing that over half of U.S. employees felt disrespected by their supervisors. He argues that this widespread disrespect simmered for five years before manifesting as a massive employee exodus around 2020, when workers reassessed their priorities and refused to tolerate disrespect. The speaker emphasizes that employers can no longer take employees for granted; respect is now a non‑negotiable condition for retention.

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The Harvard Business Review did research. This was back in 2015, 2016. Over 50% of employees in this country said they did not feel respected by their supervisors. Now think how that showed up in 2020. How did it show up? It took 5 years for it to show up. Yep. Goodbye. Goodbye. When the door became available for me to go do my own thing, and this country's struggling now because so many people felt that way and they're like, forget it. Priorities have changed. Now that I thought I was losing everything, I'm deciding what I want and this matters now. You thought you'd get away treating me that way when I didn't know what mattered for me. Now I know what matters for me. You can't get away with that anymore. And that's been the exodus from the workplace.