{"id":102492,"date":"2017-02-07T14:19:39","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T14:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chrisw92.sg-host.com\/?p=102492"},"modified":"2024-05-04T11:58:30","modified_gmt":"2024-05-04T10:58:30","slug":"how-staff-feel-work-google-searches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/realbusiness.co.uk\/how-staff-feel-work-google-searches","title":{"rendered":"The 13 reasons your staff want a new job based on Google searches"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='booster-block booster-read-block'><\/div><p>Many have tried to cull the storm of workers looking for different jobs at the beginning of each year, to no avail. Even with incentives aplenty to make staff happy, ?job hunt&#8221; remains one of the top-ranking Google searches.<\/p>\n<p>The term finds its way onto the internet 2.4m times a year and 273 times an hour. That&#8217;s according to CIPD course provider DPG, and it recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dpgplc.co.uk\/2017\/01\/uk-workers-really-thinking-according-google\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">analysed Google Autocomplete data to see if the search giant could shed insight on the matter<\/a>.<\/p>\n[rb_inline_related]\n<p>The point was to find out the individual reasons most likely to prompt your staff to type in those two significant words job hunt. What it found was At times funny but, unfortunately, incredibly?disheartening?. Most importantly, it unveiled Google searches often never get voiced to the HR department due to sheer?embarrassment of the question.<\/p>\n<p>With so much information at our fingertips, it&#8217;s easy to see why people would turn to Google instead. But DPG explained it&#8217;s not only given people cause to?question the most unusual things, but has cut out the experts where need be. If HR was available to tackle&#8217;such queries you&#8217;d stand more of a chance at retaining staff.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s time to let staff know that you&#8217;re listening, and that the business will help them answer any pending questions no matter how silly they may be. But in the mean time, here are top 13 Google searches DPG suggested led to a job change.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 900;\">1)<\/span> My colleagues are racist<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 900;\">2)<\/span> Are my colleagues having an affair<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 900;\">3)<\/span> Why are my colleagues so stupid<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 900;\">4)<\/span> Slept with someone I work with<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 900;\">5)<\/span> Someone I know has bed bugs<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 900;\">6)<\/span> My job kills my soul<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 900;\">7)<\/span> One of my colleagues smells<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 900;\">8)<\/span> Should someone work with pink eye<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 900;\">9)<\/span> Kissed someone I work with<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 900;\">10)<\/span> My colleagues think I?m weird<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 900;\">11)<\/span> My job feels pointless<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 900;\">12)<\/span> My job keeps me up at night<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 900;\">13)<\/span> My colleagues laugh at me<\/p>\n<p>?Of course, Google has become the first place many people turn to if they?ve got a query or embarrassing problem,&#8221; said Paul Drew, DPG&#8217;s managing director. The trouble is that the advice out there is rarely as useful as we d like, often being hearsay, gut feeling or simply inaccurate.<\/p>\n<p>?HR departments and many managers are trained specifically for dealing with sensitive issues, and cultivating a supportive culture, so people should always feel like they can ask for advice or support if they need it.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image:<\/em> Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/u\/0\/117296482850983907449?rel=author\" rel=\"author\">By Shan&#8221; Schutte&lt;\/a &gt;&lt;\/em &gt;&lt;\/p &gt; <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DPG has found staff are far more likely to ask Google a workplace query instead of seeking advice from colleagues or the HR department and chances are it will be one of these 13 Google searches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102501,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2011],"tags":[5210,2371,2115,2929,6348,2010],"class_list":["post-102492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hr-and-management","tag-google","tag-hr","tag-management","tag-retaining-staff","tag-search","tag-surreal-business"],"views":962,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/realbusiness.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/realbusiness.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/realbusiness.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realbusiness.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realbusiness.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/realbusiness.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realbusiness.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/realbusiness.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realbusiness.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realbusiness.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}