Does "insufficient recognition" as a reason for leaving a job mean simply not getting praise, or does it mean employees not getting the changes to their responsibilities, workload or perks that reflects what they feel their strengths and contributions are? Praise is all well and good but no amount of "good job" and wizard clipart is going to make up for the feeling of being stuck in a silo and/or burdened mainly with the stuff other people don't want to do.
This. I have left jobs because "recognition" meant decent raises and praise, and then being assigned to rewrite shitty applications without the opportunity to redesign them.
Now, to be fair, I probably had enough clout (and they probably had enough sense) to make noise and get myself reassigned, but at that point I started looking elsewhere, and found something new to try. But I didn't start looking until I perceived my needs being neglected.
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Does "insufficient recognition" as a reason for leaving a job mean simply not getting praise, or does it mean employees not getting the changes to their responsibilities, workload or perks that reflects what they feel their strengths and contributions are? Praise is all well and good but no amount of "good job" and wizard clipart is going to make up for the feeling of being stuck in a silo and/or burdened mainly with the stuff other people don't want to do.
This. I have left jobs because "recognition" meant decent raises and praise, and then being assigned to rewrite shitty applications without the opportunity to redesign them.
Now, to be fair, I probably had enough clout (and they probably had enough sense) to make noise and get myself reassigned, but at that point I started looking elsewhere, and found something new to try. But I didn't start looking until I perceived my needs being neglected.