Although pricing uncertainty has not yet caught up hiring, American workers do not waste time expressing their concerns.
Employee confidence dropped in April, with mentions of “uncertainty” increasing by 80% compared to the same era last year, according to the new data The confidence index of Glassdoor employees. The percentage of employees who declared that they feel positive about the 6 -month business prospects of their business in April oscillates at 45.1%, but slightly better than the record confidence of 44.9% recorded in February of this year.
“Workers [have been] Feeling more and more uncertain about the commercial prospects of their employers in the past six months, “said Daniel Zhao, principal economist in Glassdoor Fortune. Zhao noted that this growing feeling of anxiety was aggravated by changes in the economic landscape. “Employees may have the impression of waiting for the other shoe to fall, and the prices are a catalyst for uncertainty to turn into layoffs, but it is not the whole story by themselves.”
American workers have dealt with an almost constant change in recent years, including a global pandemic, a later return to office mandates, the rise of AI technology and an increasingly difficult labor market. The latest success occurred on April 2, when President Trump announced his intention to place a reference rate of 10% on imports from all countries and bring the reciprocal rates back to some of the largest business partners in the United States, including China and the European Union. Since then, a 90 -day break has been implemented by the administration, with the notable exception of China. The price uncertainty that occurs at the highest level of government has raised fears of massive economic slowdown, which could affect things such as hiring and layoffs in the future.
Although many are out of the workers' control, Zhao says employees can move forward by planning the worst case. This may include the start of updating your curriculum vitae and the start of preparing interviews, or the construction of an emergency fund.
Managers, on the other hand, can alleviate the anxiety of workers by returning to some of their leadership strategies of the cocvid era, argues Zhao. During turbulent times, being vulnerable, communicative and even admitting that not having all the answers can lead to increased confidence.
He believes that leaders fall back into their old manners, after making progress with opening during the pandemic.
“The leaders were much more ready to be honest and to say:” We do not know exactly what is going on, but here is what we know, and here is how we will try to go together. And I think some of these pandemic lessons have been lost. »»
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