The Next Practices Weekly call series has become a well-attended and wide-ranging discussion for HR leaders each Thursday at 11 AM ET / 8 AM PT. On this week's call, i4cp Senior Research Analyst Tom Stone hosted two of his colleagues, Kevin Oakes, CEO & Co-Founder, and Mollie Lombardi, Senior Research Analyst, who discussed key findings from i4cp recent research study, The Productivity Predicament. Here are some highlights from the call:
- The i4cp Productivity Predicament study's survey involved 624 responses from 52 countries; 46% outside North America, and 53% from senior executive, C-level, or board member.
- Top-performing organizations remain productive, with 49% of high-performance organizations (HPO) saying productivity has increased since March 2022, vs. only 24% of low-performers (LPO). Only 7% of HPOs say productivity has decreased since March 22, vs. 32% of LPOs. (HPO/LPO status is self-reported based on revenue, profit, market share, and customer satisfaction over the past five years.)
- The study found that organizations that listed both empathy and productivity in their top three priorities showed the strongest correlation to trust, goal achievement, and culture health.
- The study found that nearly half (47%) of survey respondents said current work location policies were designed to improve one of the following: collaboration, culture, and productivity. But the selection of one of these as the primary reason for the current work model was either very weakly or negatively correlated with both overall performance and achievement of goals.
- Key findings from the study were the following (see recording or slides for details on each):
- Four recommendations from this study are:
Links to resources shared on the call:
Access the full The Productivity Predicament series here.
