Jess Von Bank sits down with Heather Polivka, CEO of Awesome People Leaders, to discuss how managers can retain and engage employees by managing people, not just work.

The Great Resignation is underway. People are leaving their jobs in unprecedented numbers, and companies are at a loss.

Many answers have been given as to why people are so keen to quit their jobs, whether it be wages, culture, or the recent pandemic shifting the meaning of work. But what if it's simply that they aren't being managed like people?

Heather Polivka is an expert on workplace culture and employee engagement.

In this episode of Now of Work, Polivka helps to explain how an obsession with managing work, as opposed to people, has led to toxic work environments, and why those environments are precisely what workers are trying to escape.