Your employee may be showing signs of quitting — it’s critical to know how to spot them.
Productivity declined an average of 33.5% within the span of 12 weeks for employees who plan to quit their jobs, according to new data from software application Prodoscore. The engagement tracker is integrated into company software applications — such as
“The purpose of this score is to give managers visibility into their team and how they're spending their day,” says Nadine Malek Sarraf, chief marketing officer at Prodoscore. “On the employee side, it's an opportunity for them as well to have visibility into what they're doing with their day.”
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Along with tracking employee’s engagement, Prodoscore is also able to pull a number of behavioral commonalities between employees who chose to leave their company and provide broader insight on worker attrition.
Employees tend to become more disengaged as they draw closer to their final week of employment, according to Adrian Reece, PRC Principal Statistical Consultant and a doctoral student who helped research the data.
“This attrition research is a game changer,” he says. “It positions the conversation in a very different way. Having insight into when people are potentially thinking of leaving an organization — the implications are huge financially from a management and leadership standpoint.”
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Although Prodoscore’s findings can’t be linked to the pandemic, current events are leaving employees burned out and pushing them out the door — over
A change in three key indicators suggested that somebody would either be likely to stay or likely to leave: The worker’s prodoscore, calendar time and
“These don’t necessarily mean that [the employee] is leaving the organization,” Sarraf says. “But it's a signal to potentially step in. With this kind of visibility, it creates that transparency that you otherwise wouldn't have.”
Although companies may not be able to backpedal once they’ve spotted the red flags, Sarraf hopes it will embolden them to open the channels of communication between employer and employee.
Here are a few warning signs your employee may be close to putting in their two weeks:
