This year Belden was recognized as a Great Place to Work. And not just a Great Place to Work in one country but in 17! It is an awesome accomplishment for any company and speaks to the "Belong. Believe. Be you" mantra that we have. While that is great for us, want to know what is sad about the Great Place to Work information overall?
According to Great Place to Work, only 57% of employees at a typical U.S. based company say the company they work at is a great place to work (our number at Belden is 81%). 57%. That seems terrible. Barely half of all employees think their company is a great place to work in the U.S.
Think about other metrics, tests, etc. Would 57% be sufficient? 57% on a test, 57% accuracy on your financial statement, 57% offer acceptance rate, 57% would not cut it and would require immediate action to correct. But that doesn't seem to be the case in companies and trying to make their environments a great place to work even if not going for the official certification.
I think one of the reasons the number is so low is because of the approach many of us bring to work. It is often only results driven, only focused on a number or a dollar, and too often the human element is left out and ignored.
In recruiting, we hear the bad and the good of different companies with the amount of conversations we have with people looking to change jobs or who are out of a job. A similar theme that I hear in my conversations is that companies and managers take the Dumb and Dumber approach to trying to make their company and environment a better place to work...
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