Retention of staff, so that key skills and experience are not lost, is very important for employers.
Benchmarking the employer’s total turnover rate and voluntary resignation rate against those of similar employers can help the employer to establish whether the level of turnover is acceptable, too high or too low.
Employers need to analyse the underlying reasons for staff departures and, if the departure rates are too high, establish a retention strategy.
The CIPD has repeated calls for employers to invest in staff if they are to retain them after the recession....
By Gill Hibberd, president of the Public Sector People Managers' Association
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Amazon’s HR chief is focusing more than ever on retaining staff so that when the economic upturn comes employees are...
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Engauge is launching a workshop in Cambridge to help HR managers get fired up. The HR team is under pressure to cut costs, deal with the human consequences of the economic downturn and engage, enthuse and retain key staff in the business.
