If you believe that your employees are your biggest resource, then you know the damage high employee turnover does to your business. The time and money you’ve invested in finding, hiring, and training employees walks right out your door when an employee quits. How to battle employee turnover? It starts with an understanding of why employees leave. Until you know their reasons, there is little you can do to stop the leak.

1. 35% of American workers quit in the first six months.

2. If you believe that your
employees are your biggest
resource, then you know the
damage high employee
turnover does to your
business.

3. 2 Big Questions
• Why Do Employees Leave?
• How Do I Keep Employees From
Leaving?

4. 1. Why Do
Employees Leave?

5. Better wages and benefits found elsewhere.

6. Your employees are bored with the work.

7. There is trouble with the team. A recent study found that American
employees spend 2.8 hours each week dealing with conflict.

8. They are disengaged. Once employees disengage and turn work into merely a
time clock and a paycheck, businesses will see 30% to 50% higher turnover.

9. They have a poor relationship with the boss. A recent study suggests
that half of employees quit because of problems with their boss.

10. What Does A Bad Boss Look
Like?
• Overloads and makes excessive
demands on employees
• Micro-manages everything they do
• Difficult to talk to
• Cares more about him or herself
than the staff
• Wastes employee time

11. 2. How Do I Keep
Employees From Leaving?

12. Your competitors aren’t
just the others in your
industry, but any job that
the employee could
leave you to take.

13. Have great culture. There are two kinds of culture at
play in your business: internal and external.

14. Acknowledge great work. Letting your employees
know they’ve done a great job is paramount.

15. Be upfront about the job. 35% of American workers quit in the
first six months because it’s not what they expected the job to be.

16. Deal with conflicts immediately. The truth is simple: a conflict-
free business is one both employees and customers want to be at.

17. Hire the right people for the right job.
Above all, hire the right people.

18. Have great culture. There are two kinds of culture at
play in your business: internal and external.

19. To make your culture work, you
have to communicate to your
employees what it is.
That will include both practical and
abstract concepts such as:
• Benefits
• Expectations
• Rules
• Rewards
• Core Values

20. Hire and retain the best
employees to reduce employee
turnover. Use our HR resources
to guide the way.
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