Workers Are Tired of Endless Change

There is a disheartening development in the modern workplace—change fatigue, which is a sense of frustration, apathy and resistance that arises among employees subjected to frequent, ongoing changes within an organization. It occurs when people just cannot keep up with the pace or volume of change coming their way. As McKinsey states, we have entered "the age of perpetual organizational upheaval."

Researchers at Gartner state, "Unaddressed employee change fatigue erodes business performance and impacts technology adoption and employee engagement." Further, 90 percent of human resources leaders don’t feel their managers are helping employees who struggle with change fatigue.

As companies navigate an increasingly turbulent environment, a recent report found that change fatigue is one of the top five barriers to success (44 percent of participants ranked it the most impactful barrier), following only behind low capacity. This is the first time that change fatigue was featured on this list, and its immediate arrival in second place may be related to another key barrier—a lack of direction from top leaders.

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