Amplify Digest: Tomorrow, Today
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Welcome to the Amplify Digest. Every week, I break down five articles in five minutes; discussing the top people news, stories, and resources that are worth your time. Scroll down for links to the articles covered in the video (and more), a helpful thread from the Amplify Accelerator Community, and curated jobs from the Amplify Job Board.
This week’s digest is episode explores flexible work plans from Lyft, Dashlane’s guide to hybrid work, numbers behind the great resignation in tech, and more.
Greetings from Las Vegas! I’m currently on the road attending my first live event in two years - HR Transform. There’s a palpable buzz here as it’s the first live conference since the pandemic for many attendees. Awkard elbow bumps, unsure mask etiquette, and mild large gathering anxiety aside - it feel really good to be learning and connecting with fellow humans again.
I’ll be traveling three of the next four weeks so will likely be doing more text updates than videos while traveling. I’ll also include some behind-the-scenes event photos to give you a glimpse inside some of these events. Scroll on by to get to this week’s content. Thanks!
Moderating a “New World of Work” panel with Chief People Officers from TripAdvisor (Beth Grous), Carbon Health (Uzair Qadeer) and EA (Mala Singh).
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Articles discussed in this week's Digest (and more)
The “Great Resignation” in tech: looking back and moving forward (Clare Davis)
Five Reasons To Be Optimistic About The Future of Work (Workforce Futurist)
5 Challenges of Hybrid Work — and How to Overcome Them (Harvard Business Review)
A Two-Year, 50-Million-Person Experiment in Changing How We Work (The New York Times)
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[Question] Hi all! I’m wondering if anybody has any resources they can share on average tenure for 2021 for tech in Canada & USA / all industries in Canada & USA?
A2: I hear a lot of 2.X years discussed in tech in the US, but haven't seen a lot of good states and have not seen or heard stats for all industries.
A3: I think that's sort of legacy rumor. From what I'm hearing (and what I saw as an external consultant) the number is closer to 14-18 months depending on the company. But, again, I've never seen actually data - it'd be a liability to publish.
A4: I wonder if CultureAmp would share what they have for their New Tech segment as an average. They are not sharing it on their website but once I asked them something in a customer service ticket and they shared. I can email them if no one else here is a current client.
A5: At my company it's is currently 2.1 years by the way, but obviously one company is not a representative sample. I have been tracking for almost 4 years now at I think it's been between that and 2.5 years the entire time. Indeed we've been around over a decade and even if there are only a handful of long tenured people still around, it skews us a bit higher than a younger company.
A6: I’ve never seen a company post this outwards (yet, but also liability as you mention) I’ve only seen this type of content floating around historically as a referenced stat, so my mind was wandering the other day on the curiosities of who is sharing this content, where is it getting shared, how are people getting these stats when they’re presenting content or point to these stats in articles…
A7: This Culture Amp report has those avg. tenure referenced (page 16), but pointing more to company size, not specifically new technology: Culture Crunch Report
A8: Coming back here because I just learned something new - you can see average tenure through insights on LinkedIn (paid business account feature), which is based on aggregated data from employee start / end dates only on LinkedIn, so not 100% accurate, but a stronger signal for sure.
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