is a good test to see just how well or poorly a company treated its workers over the last few years. The scale of the “great resignation” indicates that most have a lot of room to improve. The bottom line, so important to many managers, is that undervalued workers. At scale, the loss of productivity and constant retraining does not seem like they add up to a functioning business in the long run.
It is probably too much to ask for companies to think about things outside of a cell in a spreadsheet, so perhaps the actual numbers will help. Setting aside the many, many hidden costs of poor employee retention, companies with highly engaged employees tend to perform better. And to put it into numbers that a spreadsheet fanatic can understand, companies with more motivated workers.