Thanks to the “Great Resignation” of 2020 and 2021, many employers are scrambling to retain talent while trying unconventional ways to attract new employees. Many employees and job candidates seem to have concluded that “life is too short to work at a job you don’t like.” Workers have gotten used to flexibility and spending more time with their families, and many are quitting jobs that do not offer the work-life balances they seek. Savvy organizations that take the time to learn what employees are looking for in the workplace, and figure out how to make changes to be able to offer it, are likely to outperform their competitors in the fight for top talent in a tough job market. This webinar discusses some of the concrete, yet attainable, changes that employers can make to improve the desirability of working at their organizations.
Publication Date: August 2022
Topics Covered
- Changes that employers can make to improve the desirability of working at their organizations
- Workplace features that often cause employees to leave a company, and those likely to attract talent
- Key management challenges to offering the work-life balance environment that many employees seek
- Changes that employers can make to attract and retain workers
Learning Objectives
- Describe the workplace features that often cause employees to leave a company, and those likely to attract talent
- Recognize how to explain the key management challenges to offering the work-life balance environment that many employees seek
- Identify specific changes that employers can make to attract and retain workers
- Identify the approximate percentage of workers planning to leave their jobs in 2022
- Recognize a good way for an employer to show they value work-life balance
- Recognize an effective way to reduce the need to hire from the outside
- Describe one of the major reasons people leave their jobs
- Identify a positive of The Great Resignation for employers
Level
Basic
Instructional Method
Self-Study
NASBA Field of Study
Personnel/HR (2 hours)
Program Prerequisites
None
Advance Preparation
None
Instructor
Jennifer Kowal
Jennifer Kowal, JD, has been a tax professor and the director of the graduate tax program at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles since 2003. Loyola’s graduate tax program offers an LL.M. in Taxation for attorneys and a Master in Tax Law for non-lawyers. Professor Kowal teaches courses in advanced income taxation, income tax timing issues, corporate taxation, and tax research, among others. Prior to teaching at Loyola, Professor Kowal taught in the International Tax Program at Harvard Law School.
She also practiced law with the firms of Irell & Manella in Los Angeles and Ropes & Gray in Boston, advising clients on the taxation of various business transactions, including cross-border, partnership and corporate structures. Professor Kowal holds a BS in Accounting with distinction from the University of Kansas, and a JD from UCLA School of Law, where she was a member of the Order of the Coif.