While staff rarely stay with a company long-term nowadays, could your business be giving employees added impetus to seek greener pastures? Entrepreneurial expert, company director and author Alan Manly investigates.

Employee Retention

Poor employee retention is bad news for business for a host of reasons: lost skills, higher recruitment costs, credibility problems. Furthermore, it tends to only be seen in the rear-view mirror. Things usually get worse before they get better.

Exit interviews may provide clues as to the causes, but often generate the same clichéd responses of any relationship break-up: “it’s not you, it’s me.”

Fundamentally, poor retention stems from a few core factors. So if a mass exodus is what you’re after, these are the fastest ways to