March 11, 3:54 am
Employee survey reveals reasons for employee retention
Why are the employees staying? Why are they leaving?
Kathy Gurchiek, writing at SHRM’s website, cites a recent employee survey of North American Workers about why they “do” and “don’t” stay with a job. The #1 reason people leave? By a huge margin – Lack of Career Advancement Opportunities.
Here are the top four reasons people leave their job:
29% - Lack of Career Advancement
14% - Desire for Change
14% - Unsatisfying work / Work that doesn’t matter
14% - Desire to earn more money
Read the whole story and find out what employees say “works” and “doesn’t work” at work - you might find some of your assumptions are flat out missing the mark.
Filed in Work, Motivation, Workplace, Corporate Culture, Retention
Dan - nice find.
Interesting… My organization is in the process of conducting a survey of our local labor market and probably the top reason that respondents indicated they would be willing to switch jobs is better opportunities for professional growth and advancement.
The vast majority of these individuals indicated that there was not sufficient opportunity for professional advancement with their current employer.
More interesting to me was that very few of these individuals indicated that they were planning on leaving their job within the next year.
The culprit… Almost all of these individuals indicated that they did not feel there was adequate opportunities for gainful professional employment in our community.
The result… These people stay in there jobs because they have to, not because they want to.
I might be comparing apples and oranges here, but it makes me wonder what is more costly to an organization… People who “stay and quit” or those who have the courage to leave for better opportunities elsewhere.
Chris Young