The month of January saw a flurry of informative surveys about the state of the employee union.

Ignites reported new research from The Conference Board about overall job satisfaction. The study suggested that 54.7% of respondents are “dissatisfied” at work.

Gallup Management Journal, on the other hand, suggested that even at the height of the recession employees were, and still are, engaged.

A Kathy Freeman Company survey of leaders in financial services revealed that more than 75% of these leaders were considering a job change in 2010.

Could it be that employees are, all at once, engaged, dissatisfied and looking to make a change?

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I’m not sure when it was that I tossed my half-baked process of New Year’s resolutions out the window.
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