Good Dividends: Purposefully changing the world of work
A new model developed by an innovative Gloucestershire firm is helping leaders re-shape their businesses - reinvigorating workforces, communities, the environment and delivering 'good dividends'.
As businesses battle a skills gap, as well as challenges around staff retention and engagement, Gloucestershire leadership development specialists Quolux and its partner Professor Steve Kempster believe they have found an answer - a model for the future, one they are calling Good Dividends. Stuart Barnes, founder and ceo of QuoLux tells us more how it is already making a real impact.
A Humanifesto
Recent research confirms that over 80 per cent of businesses state that they are facing a skills gap. This comes at a time of a global shortage of labour. Recruitment is becoming more difficult. Wages are rising. Retention of staff is a concern with too much ‘churn’ reported in too many companies. Almost 70 per cent of employees are disengaged or actively disengaged.
Any surprise that people enjoy ‘working from home’ and are reluctant to come back to the workplace?
This feeds into productivity statistics that suggests a worker in Germany is 35 per cent more productive than a person doing the sam…
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