
This is the picture I took of the early results of a little poll we made up over coffee. You will notice that there seems to be a nice balance of staying and leaving, but then...all those people looking; looking for something better, more rewarding.
Job boards make that so easy now. There are boards for everyone's skill set, all over the world.
And then--back to the poll-- there's that grumpy middle: disengaged, spends their time surfing the net, or generally spreading good cheer. Not.
What do you need to do?
Suggest: Identify the people on the floor that you can't lose. Find out how things are going with them.
- Do yourself a favour. Take the morning, and do a compensation search on your staff roster. Then take a look at what you are actually paying them. Find out what the underpaid are actually up to (if there's a reason why they aren't being compensated at least average).
- Please note that not everything is about the money.
- There are lots of things going on with people: family, health, pressures of debt or other difficulty.
I was sent a book called the Deadly Sins of Retention, by Murphy and Burgio-Murphy. Take a look. It's a quick read; a user's guide really.
This takes you to Amazon.com: The Deadly Sins of Employee Retention.