Andrew Duffy Of SparkPlug On The Labor Shortage & The 5 Things We Must Do To Attract & Retain Great Talent

An Interview with Phil La Duke

Employers should focus on balancing and making reasonable the amount of day-to-day instantaneous happiness that their employees are experiencing, but also, it’s work. It is impossible to force everyone to always have fun while they are working. Working is fundamentally hard, which is why it is work. Whereas on the flip side, you can still make people feel that work has value and is creating valuable progress for them, their company, and their society, without having to make it a pizza party every single day.

The pandemic has allowed people to reevaluate what they want from work. This “Great Reevaluation” has led to the “Great Resignation” which has left the US with a great big labor shortage and a supply chain crisis. What can we do to reverse this trend? What can be done to attract great talent to companies looking to hire? What must companies do to…