Five Top Employee Retention Strategies

One of the greatest challenges facing employers today is finding and keeping good employees. This article describes some effective employee retention strategies that will help you retain good staff and develop a stable workforce.

The first step is to understand why employees leave. The second is to implement employee retention strategies to get them to stay.

Five main reasons why employees leave

1. "It doesn't feel good around here." This can include any number of issues to do with the corporate culture and the physical working environment.
2. "They wouldn't miss me if I were gone." Many people don't feel personally valued. When people don't feel engaged or appreciated, all the money in the world can't hold them.