Marc Drizin

The new Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For list just came out.  In case you are wondering, it’s the February 4, 2008 edition.  As a geeky researcher I love to put numbers together, take them apart, and then put them together another way.  As I continue to review the list, there was one metric [...]

I often call mid-career employees Wallflowers.  They blend into the background, doing their thing, taking care of customers and supporting other staff.  These folks may not to get a lot of attention from management (who are watching the new employees and trying to “fix” the bad ones) and may not receive new training and development. [...]

A new study was just released by the Center for State & Local Government Excellence.  No, that isn’t a typo.  No matter what your experience as a “customer” of state and local government products and services, there really is a Center for Excellence.  No, that’s not the point of this blog entry, just me being [...]

Nearly one in four workers has been with their employer less than two months, one third of workers have been employed by their company less than 2 years.  In fact, a greater number of employees have tenure of less than 2 years than have tenure of 10 years or more. Based on my organization’s 2006 [...]

My friend, Dana Knight is a reporter for the Indianapolis Star.  Dana concentrates on workforce issues and is currently going around the city learning new skills as she “temps” at various companies. Today Dana talked about her stint at Subway.  Some good stuff, you should read it. Anyway… There’s also this “Just 1 Minute” section [...]

Cool title, huh?  It’s the title of my book, written with Dr. Stephen Hundley, one of the co-authors of my first book Workforce Engagement, Strategies to Attract, Motivate, and Retain Employees, World-at-Work’s third best-selling book in 2007.  Being #3 ain’t bad, and it gives Stephen and I something to shoot for in 2008. As you [...]

Recruiting is not the same as hiring.  Putting an ad in the local paper, checking for a pulse during an interview, and throwing the newly hired applicant on the floor is hiring.  Recruiting is finding the right talent for the right job at the right time.  I conducted a two hour corporate training session a [...]

Indianapolis can’t find enough pharmacists.  Due to a myriad of forces, there is way more demand than there is supply.  And now, Medco is building a new distribution center that will put additional pressure on demand through the hiring of 1300 workers, many of them pharmacists.  And these are well paying jobs, the typical salary [...]

Circuit City Stores is asking some former employees to come back. The employees are part of a group of 3,400 employees fired earlier this year because they were experienced and earned too much money. The employees were replaced with lower-paid workers. What a hoot.  Can’t have anything to do with Circuit City continuing to lose [...]

I recently delivered results of the baseline employee engagement survey we conducted to the leadership team of my client.  There was nothing especially  different or unique about this group of men and women.  They were talented senior executives who managed departments, divisions, units, and geographies.  As we discussed the results of the employee assessment we [...]