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Be selective with the actions you’re recognizing and the behaviors you’re amplifying, because we’re all driving the culture bus. Organizational influence

Zweig Group’s 2020-2021 Recruitment & Retention Report of AEC Firms provides insight on how the pandemic has affected staff growth rates over the course of the last year. The chart above shows the number of full-time employees who joined and left the firm as a percentage of total staff by year. While the average percentage of employees leaving firms held steady at around 14 percent, the AEC industry saw a steep drop in the number of employees it was taking on. Participate in a survey and save 50 percent on the final or pre- publication price of any Zweig Group research publication. F I R M I N D E X Bycor Construction.................................2 Dewberry................................................4 Lawrence Group.....................................6 Michael Baker International. ....................4 Neel-Schaffer, Inc....................................2 Ware Malcomb........................................2 MO R E A R T I C L E S xz MERCEDEZ THOMPSON: Winning cover letters Page 3 xz Serving others: Mike Schnaare Page 6 xz MARK ZWEIG: Things I’ve learned about buying A/E firms Page 9 xz PATRICK SCHULTZ: Navigating operations during global crisis Page 11

E veryone knows that culture eats strategy for breakfast, but you also need a strategy to develop and maintain culture. When things go downhill, if you’re in the fray, it can be extremely challenging to diagnose those critical watershed moments when things took a turn for the worse. As technical people, engineers, and scientists, we love >Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Page 10 Page 11 Page 12

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