{"id":16691,"date":"2015-12-17T23:10:43","date_gmt":"2015-12-18T07:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.questionpro.com\/?p=16691"},"modified":"2023-06-07T07:15:55","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T07:15:55","slug":"plan-employee-retention-into-your-master-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.questionpro.com\/blog\/plan-employee-retention-into-your-master-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"Employee Retention &#8211; Making Sure You&#8217;re Going To War With Your Best Warriors"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Employee Retention:<\/h2>\n<p>You need it. Just like you wouldn&#8217;t go to war without your best warriors and sharpened spears, you need the best people to launch that best product. The product can make unicorns rain from the sky and still won&#8217;t survive long in this modern, cut-throat global marketplace if you don&#8217;t have a team that can weather the hard and good times. So why has it taken so long for companies to actively outline an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.questionpro.com\/blog\/employee-retention-strategies\/\">employee retention strategy<\/a> to improve <a href=\"https:\/\/www.questionpro.com\/blog\/retention-rate\/\">retention rate<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Company X pays more.<\/strong> A common excuse. And yet, we continue to see a high <a href=\"https:\/\/www.questionpro.com\/blog\/employee-turnover\/\">employee turnover<\/a> rate in companies with cash to burn. Yahoo is the classic example of this. So it can&#8217;t be just a payroll thing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Culture fit.<\/strong> You can&#8217;t expect everyone to love you. But when no one stays longer than a year, isn&#8217;t the common denominator\u00a0the company rather than the individual?<\/p>\n<p><b>That churn rate.\u00a0<\/b>The thing about top talent is, they aren&#8217;t just smart people. They&#8217;re motivated, capable, passionate people. So even if you gave them the moon and the stars, if they don&#8217;t see themselves making a fundamental change in the world, they will leave. Top talent is not content being exceptionally-paid mooches; or even exceptionally paid muscle. Most top talent struggle with being given a strict <a href=\"https:\/\/www.questionpro.com\/blog\/workforce-strategy\/\">workforce strategy<\/a> that details down to the second. Everyone wants to innovate, and a good company has to balance structure with individual freedom and autonomy.<\/p>\n<p>And even if you do end up losing top talent, it&#8217;s good to understand why they left. Is it something that&#8217;s fundamentally difficult to fix? Or is it something that could have easily been implemented, if only bureaucracy can stop being so bureaucratic?<\/p>\n<p>Your master plan isn&#8217;t complete unless you know how you&#8217;re going to keep your best people. Check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.questionpro.com\/workforce\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">QuestionPro Workforce<\/a>, providing you tools to create an engaged team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Employee Retention: You need it. 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