Calling it quits

79% of employees will quit due to lack of appreciation according to new stats from Zippia, and according to Scott Agnew, author of ‘Long Term Leader’, the answer is a new leadership approach focusing on empathy, tenderness and understanding. Now, I’m all for managers displaying those attributes, but when it comes to appreciation nothing to my mind talks louder than money - and the BPIF’s latest Printing Outlook survey (for Q4 2022) shows that a third of respondents reported that they had conducted a pay review in Q4, resulting in an average 5.2% pay increase. How does that reflect pay rises within your own company - and does your pay strategy prove you’re empathetic and appreciative enough of your staff to retain them?