Effect of Great Recession on employee attitudes

Well, its inevitable this study would be done. And equally inevitable its probably been done several times with varying questions. Quick take: Employees are waking up to life outside of work, and the importance of family as a direct effect of the Great Recession. For some of us, we were rescued earlier. My liberation occurred when a longtime local client was acquired by a multi-national firm, after which they never called again. This occurrence is of course, by no means unique to me, but it made this professional pause and rethink the boundaries of commitment to serving clients before family. The oldest of my 4 children was 12 at the time. After that point, I never missed a school event or an athletic event because of work conflicts. The best part was most client representatives (and even judges) completely understood the point.