6 Ways Companies Fail to Help Workers Grow

The authors recently studied Fortune 250 companies and ranked them based on the lived experience of three million of their U.S. workers. One of their key findings was that even top-ranked firms fail to deliver consistently on worker advancement. To understand why this is happening, the authors then grouped underperforming companies based on measures of opportunity creation and were able to identify six archetypes of underperformance. In this article, they describe each of those six archetypes in detail and then recommend three main areas that underperforming companies should focus on to improve the upward mobility of their workers: consistently measuring outcomes, investing more in training, and letting go of archaic business models.