Due to ever-increasing competition for top talent, employee retention has become a critical business concern across all major industries. As the economy continues to perform well and the unemployment rate continues to decline, business leaders, HR executives and managers need to understand the current drivers of employee turnover in order to improve the effectiveness of their retention initiatives.
Our latest Trendicators survey report, Why Do Employees Leave?, provides new, science-driven insights about why employees are seriously considering leaving their current employer in the next 12 months.
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More than half (53 percent) of U.S. companies with 500 or more employees conduct employee engagement surveys. However, more than a third of managers do not act on the results of these surveys. The implications of this inaction, which has held at a relatively constant rate for several years, are particularly significant in today’s business environment in which high turnover rates and historically low unemployment converge to reduce capacity for achieving growth forecasts.
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All employers, large and small, are competing to attract and retain employees for the same hard-to-fill jobs in today’s highly competitive, candidate-driven marketplace.
McKinsey & Company reports that more than three- quarters of Fortune 500 CEOs do not believe their companies are effective at attracting highly talented people. Of those CEOs who do consider their companies successful at attracting top talent, only 7% believe they are effective in retaining them.
