"It's likely that your organization has one, if not many, projects on the horizon like managing the risk in AI, investing in a new ERP, reorganizing teams, or a million other possibilities.
You're not imagining it, there is more change. In past years the average employee has experienced 10 planned enterprise changes, up from just two in 2016.

 
But here’s the thing: Employees aren't on board. Willingness to support org. change has dropped by half since the pandemic, from 74% in 2016 to 43% in 2022. Leaders feel powerless to motivate exhausted employees... and execs are fed up with the pace of innovation. They want to be back to pre-pandemic levels of employee engagement, enthusiasm, willingness to come to the table with new ideas.

Our obsession with productivity is killing our capacity for innovation. Leaders are optimizing for full utilization, no wasted time. Employees who are busy every minute have zero bandwidth for new projects."