The Age of the Less-Ambitious Employee

Workforce Management
December 19, 2011

Here's another casualty of the anemic economy: employee ambition.

Thanks to stock market gyrations and more-difficult management jobs, employees today care less about climbing the corporate ladder.

In 2006, career opportunities ranked as the sixth-most important factor (out of 38 possibilities) in terms of promoting employee engagement, according to advisory firm the Corporate Executive Board Co. By 2011, career opportunities had fallen to 12th place.


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