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Inga Gilchrist, While Australian employers are serenading their workers with Stand By Me, employees are humming You're the Reason I'm Leaving. Bosses and middle managers are out of touch with their workers' attitudes, with almost as many employees planning to quit as there are employers assuming they are staying put. A major study of Aussie workers released today revealed almost three in four were planning to move on immediately or whenthe right job came up. Bosses, meanwhile, believe as many as four in five employees will stick by them for another two years. Dubbed "The Great Divide" between workers' and bosses' expectations, the gulf was a bad omen for workplace satisfaction over the next few years, the report's authors said. Melbourne human resource firm 1st Executive found most workers had itchy feed, with more than three in five deciding their career path demanded a walkout on their current employer. "We were genuinely shocked at the beadth of the divide in the views of employers and employees about where those employees would be working in two years' time," 1st Executive director Andrew Thoseby said. "In many cases, management simply is not doing what it says it is doing," he said. "Performance management is paid lip-serice and is rarely seen as a strategic priority." Most workers (58 per cent) would leave for better work/life balance, the report found. Pay was a minor concern, with the employees keenest to leave believing their pay was high by industry standards. Workers crave updates on their performance but are left wondering, The Great Divide study revealed. Whilst almost nine in 10 managers say they do performance reviews at least yearly, about one in two employees complained that they had mot had an appraisal in 12 months. Victorian Employers' Chamber of Commerce and Industry senior policy adviser Andrew Rimington said workers' habit of having one foot out the door reflected Generation Y's opportunism. "(Employers) have got to look at what they can offer their employees in training and up-skilling to keep them interested", he said.
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