“It’s too touch-feely,” “takes a lot of time and
money,” “I would rather focus on recruitment for now,”
“you just can’t keep good people these
days”…..retention….do our organizations focus on it as
much as they should? Statistics tell us as HR professionals that we
need to be a bit nervous right now. We have a retention crisis
going on. Employees have more options in the workforce and are happy to
engage those options if they make sense. In short, they leave your
company. What are we doing about it? How can your organization address
this crisis? How can you lower your risk of watching employees walk out
the back door? In this article, we will explore some ideas that will
assist in addressing retention.