Jobhop Jobhop's blog : Your Disengaged Employees Are Causing You To Panic Hire

You had to fill the position quickly, but now you’re concerned that you were too hasty, perhaps you should’ve held out a bit longer.

If your business had a great company culture, was tuned into social, understood the recruiting/marketing mix, as well as a recruitment strategy then they’d be no panic hiring. When you panic hire, hiring for culture tends to be way down on the list, if on the list at all, that’s when it all goes, Pete Tong!

Bad company culture results in disengaged employees that result in panic hiring and what you get are even more disengaged employees!

Disengaged employees show up for work, but they leave their soul, passion and energy back at home, what shows up for work is an eidolon or a visitant! The good news is they’re nicer than zombies!

A business with disengaged employees will result in poor productivity; people are not productive when they’re not engaged.

An IPSOS study commissioned by Steelcase showed that only 17% of UK employees were engaged in their work, that means a lot of UK businesses are not looking after their employees properly and are hiring wrong.

Disengaged employees are costing the UK economy billions; it’s a huge problem, but it can be rectified, it just takes commitment.

Productivity would go up if employees did a job they loved, backed up with great training, with plenty of support, and you could have a winning recipe.

Many employees don’t start off disengaged, some start their new jobs at their new places of work with much enthusiasm, but gradually that enthusiasm gets knocked out of them. Everything is a learned behaviour; they stop putting the effort in because nobody else does, they quickly learn that they’re never acknowledged when they do anyway, so why bother?

Panic hiring soon starts because staff turnover is high, the employer gets stressed and is continuously scrambling to fill the gaping employee hole.

If you’re an employer who is currently running around like a headless chicken, but like a headless chicken is just going round and round in circles, STOP!

Put your head on and breathe! You have to start at the root-cause, ask yourself why do you have a high staff turnover?

Look at the company culture and if it’s bad or not good, start working on improving it.

Ask your employees, what can you do to make sure they are fully engaged every day, sometimes you’ll be surprised, it could be something simple which could make massive changes. The IPSOS study reported the top employee complaints were interruptions, on average an employee is interrupted every three minutes, of course, that will affect morale and productivity. However small or big your employee complaints are they need to be looked at sorted, one way or the other.

Once your company culture is good, staff turnover will go down; your employees will be happy to work there, which means you will attract more people who want to work there, which means you will never panic hire ever again! It also means as an employer of choice you will be in a position to hire for culture first, because when the culture is right everything else will fall into place.