Employment discontent rises

New research out shows that 84% of employees would not recommend their current company as a place of work. The Retail Eyes and Retail Gazette Salary Survey 2011 released recently shows that 53% of workers in the retail industry were

detractors of their current company as an employer. Editor for Retail Gazette, Ben Sillitoe, warned that this should be a wakeup call for retail bosses nationwide, reminding them that they need to work hard to enthuse and motivate their employees during these financially difficult times.

Sillitoe said: “Embattled retailers are rightly keeping their eyes on the bottom line, but they need to make sure that the way they treat and reward staff is not contributing to their struggles in the first place.”

It does a suggest a bit of a catch twenty-two for business’ who are simultaneously trying to re-build themselves post recession and in doing so seeming to neglect employee management.

In a survey of over 1,000 retail professionals in the UK, 41 per cent said they were now less content in their work then when it was announced that the UK had officially left recession in January 2010.

Geographically, those working in the north-west and midlands areas of England saw the biggest fall in contentment during the period, with 45 per cent and 47 per cent respectively saying they felt less content, whilst a huge 76 per cent of those working in the former felt less secure in their jobs.