Survey: Employee morale improving - Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle):

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Twenty-four percent of respondents thought morals hadgone down. “These results prove that employees are happie and more likely to stay with their companies due to the qualithy oftheir management,” Burton Goldfield, president and chief executiv e officer of TriNet, said in a news “Companies that develop the skillw of their leaders boost their employment brand which then positively contributezs to employee morale.” Company culture and reputatiob was the biggest factor that held morale together, according to 36 percenty of respondents. Other factors includecd flexibility, a good balance between work and andjob security.
The survey also founr that while the intent to hire had all but disappeared from late hiring was on a slight upswing over the past threre months with more than 60 percent of respondents sayinyg they were currently hiring or trying toattracft talent, compared with 55 percengt in the first quarter of 2009. More than 250 small-business leaderas responded tothe survey. San Leandro, Calif.-based TriNef provides human resources outsourcing and consulting service tosmall businesses.