Healing Recessionary Disengagement

Lindsay Edmonds Wickman writes for Chief Learning Officer

Do your employees seem more reticent than usual? Do they have that empty look in their eyes? Are they doing just enough to get by?

According to Kevin Sheridan, CEO of HR Solutions, these are all symptoms of recessionary disengagement, which is the “collateral damage” from layoffs, hiring freezes and salary cuts.

“They’re what we call the ‘ambivalent employee,’” he said. “You could even call them quit-and-stay employees. They’re in the job. They’re getting a paycheck every two weeks, but they literally quit weeks ago. It’s not that they’re bad employees; it’s just that they need coaching [to] get them re-engaged to their job and the mission at hand.”

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