Viewpoint: Trust me! It’s the only way to hold onto good employees.

Man, you almost have to marvel at the callousness of Covid-19’s unending pandemic. There’s the tragedy of deaths, the despair of isolation, the heartbreak of business closures, the anxiety of unemployment, and all of it on repeat with its devious Delta variant.

And then as its parting gift, it’s dropped upon our doorsteps the Great Resignation, the latest phenomenon to give us sleepless nights and scarcities of talent that we’re all desperately battling over with our sharpest negotiation swords.

But ultimately, our success as managers and employers with our staffs comes down to the same quality that’s likely at the root of every other of our closest relationships in life.

Trust.

If our employees trust us, they’re more likely to want to stay. And much more importantly, if they know we trust them, they’re more likely to be happy with that decision. That trust must be at the heart of all return-to-office plans in the coming whatever-time-frame-these-finally-play-out. Trust…

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