THE ALLIANCE
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In the 1980s, a Conference Board survey found
that 56 percent of executives believed “employ-
ees who are loyal to the company and further its
business goals deserve an assurance of continued
employment.” Just a decade later, that fi gure had
plummeted to 6 percent.
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Remember GE’s focus on
maximizing employee security? By the 1990s, GE
CEO Jack Welch was quoted as saying, “Loyalty to a
company? It’s nonsense.”
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In the at- will era, employees have been encouraged
to think of themselves as “free agents,” seeking out
the best opportunities for growth and changing jobs
whenever better offers beckoned. The Towers Watson
2012 Global Workforce Study found that even though
about half of employees wanted to stay with their cur ...