Retaining employees requires investigation, attention and action. Enterprises can embed retention strategies within their company structure to increase the rate employees stay and rise to higher positions. Though perks and salaries entice employees from the beginning, it takes monumental finesse to create a work environment that makes employees feel fulfilled and comfortable to stay for an entire career.
1. Change Recruitment Strategies
The talent acquisition team’s job is to entice employees and provide a first impression. It’s the initial opportunity companies have to demonstrate what their organization’s culture encompasses and how their goals align with the new employee. It sets the entrant’s expectations for the bigger picture, mainly if they envision themselves at the employer in a decade or so.
HR can gauge the reactions of people onboarding or interviewing to understand how newcomers feel about the organization. Based on their reactions, responses and understanding, teams can adjust their strategies, branding and wording to be more accurate to the employer’s vision while still being true to their purpose. A promise of agreeing here is more likely to create a dedicated worker who will only become more productive in time.
2. Evaluate Benefits
Quiet quitting and other workplace revolutions prove workers want better benefits for their hard work in the office. Employees want more than fair wages and paid time off. Employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs) are rising in popularity as workers want more say in company policy while starting early in finding financial freedom through passive income generation.
Since the work-from-home shift during the COVID-19 pandemic, workers who have the capability want flexible scheduling. They want to be able to work from anywhere at any time with the ability to bend their hours around necessary appointments or pick up kids from school. Nowadays, people don’t want to sacrifice their livelihoods and experiences anymore because they have work.
Retaining employees means allowing them to live a balanced life while connecting with their colleagues. Soft benefits include learning opportunities, company-paid meals or team-building events.
3. Ask Employees Questions
After gathering talent that the company believes in, getting involved with the staff’s personal and workplace aspirations is essential. Recent and tenured employees have varied yet valuable opinions from unique perspectives. Management can ask questions like these to gather data on how staff feels about their daily lives:
What would make you stay in this company for the next five years? Ten years?
Do you think you’re compensated for the work you do?
Are there enough growth opportunities and ways to access necessary information and training?
Do you believe management, administrative staff and stakeholders take your well-being and opinions into consideration?
Does the brand align with your values concerning the environment and social justice?
Internal assessments are essential, but hearing the opinions of those who came and left the job might be even more valuable. Exit interview data is also invaluable to employees looking to improve operations, work environment or quality of life.
Did they comment about a lack of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives? Did employees make suggestions to improve processes but nobody listened to them? Finding answers to these upsets will prevent them from happening again, increasing the chances of retention.
4. Speaking to What Matters
Employees want to work for employers who speak up on social and political issues. They want to know that their company is on their side, primarily when it revolves around workers’ rights. A way to retain employees is to find employees that are more likely to agree with the company’s mission. Then, workers are more likely to develop brand loyalty because they share an outlook deeper than work.
5. Become Tech-Forward
Everyone embraces generative artificial intelligence (AI), like ChatGPT, and many make their own. Outside of AI, everything from augmented reality to 5G is transforming how companies operate — employees want to be in that future.
Companies can keep employees if they go through digital transformation, showing they’re malleable and willing to grow in their sector to become a market leader. More than half of employees want to work alongside AI to see how it works in action. Plus, it benefits employees by working with superior technology and learning new skills about how digital resources yield results.
Retaining Employees With Empathy
The secret sauce in keeping top talent is using all these ingredients smartly. Employers must practice empathy to understand their employees to make them stay despite the world changing and competitors potentially vying for their attention.
To keep their employees, all organizations need to do is give them what they want. Employers have to be competitive, especially in fields where openings exceed how many people are in the area.
Eleanor is editor of Designerly Magazine. Eleanor was the creative director and occasional blog writer at a prominent digital marketing agency before becoming her own boss in 2018. She lives in Philadelphia with her husband and dog, Bear.
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