Employers have a lot to consider these days as they balance employees’ work-from-home preferences with company culture and needs, how best to retain workers, recession fears and the effects on business and hiring, rising labor costs, and addressing pay transparency and equity under a new state law effective this month.
“Retention is everything right now,” said Suzan Sturholm, owner and president of All Things HR LLC in Lynnwood. All Things HR’s 21-person staff provides HR management services for small to midsize companies across all industries, primarily in the Puget Sound area but also statewide.
“I’ve never seen a time where the focus on workplace culture has been so prevalent, so important,” said Sturholm, who’s worked in the field since 1987. “It’s creating these ‘best places to work’ where everyone feels accepted, and respected, and welcomed, and they feel like they have an opportunity for growth, that they feel that they’re being paid appropriately, that they got the benefits that they need. It’s huge; (the) magnifying glass is definitely on all the employers.”
Sturholm is a big believer in the best places to work and said companies should identify what that looks like for them and try to achieve it. Employees have sizable power in today’s market, which underscores the importance of employers doing what they can for retention, she said. Kevin B. Dull, who launched his people strategy and HR consulting company, KBD Consulting, last January after 6 years as senior...
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