In an age when employees seemingly have little attachment to their employers and are constantly searching for their next gig, is workforce development a waste of time?

A new survey by Dale Carnegie Training of 3,300 full-time employees around the world, including 515 in the U.S, finds that only 23 percent of U.S. workers intend to stick with their current job for the long-haul. Forty-one percent of employees say they are either looking for a new job now or plan to do so within the next year.

And yet, argues Ryan Holmes of Hootsuite, the social media management platform, companies should embrace their workers' hunger to move on to bigger and better things by providing them opportunities to do that within the workplace.

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