Do you, or someone you know, sometimes work through lunch to impress the boss? Or to keep the boss from questioning your value? Do you know anyone who comes in to work even when they are sick, because the company has no tolerance for unplanned absences? Are ideas freely shared in your work culture with no worries about who gets credit, or blame? When you take your vacation does your tablet or smart phone go with you, in case the office calls?
If the answer to one or more of those questions is 'yes,' and for most of America it is, then you work for or know of a company that thinks the year is 1980, because such a culture no longer works. Sure, there are plenty of people out there looking for a job, but how many of those looking for work are employees the company would seek out intentionally? And, if they are people the company wants to hire, why didn't they try to find them in the first place?
In fact, company culture is directly tied to company profits, as the Top 100 Places to Work in America are well aware. The more your company culture makes it obvious how much employees are valued, the higher the company profits soar. Or, as in the case of a non-profit, the lower the revenues spent attracting and retaining the best employees when competitive salary and benefits are not always easy to fund.
The following article brilliantly addresses this 21st Century paradigm shift.
What the Top 100 Places to work know that other companies do not
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