Employers that don’t recognize the importance of development opportunities risk losing talent to competitors. In fact, clear development paths can be viewed as employee benefits in their own right. A June poll of hourly workers by hourly work platform Branch showed hourly employees are twice as interested in being promoted internally than in switching jobs to advance elsewhere. In an employee-driven labor market with record-low unemployment, employers with large workforces of hourly employees can compete by providing career pathways.
