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Five Ideas for Retaining Your Young Workers

Recent surveys say these are the at-work values young workers hold most dear: Mobility, entrepreneurial freedom, and flexibility. Lock these key employee retention words into your brain, make them pop up on your computer screen first thing each morning because 53% of your Gen Z and millennials will consider leaving this year.

Young Workers, “Grit”, and New-Hire Turnover

Today is prime time for learning how to measure our applicants’ levels of grit…defined as passion and perseverance…because we are hiring so many of them. Assuming grit and engagement are workplace cousins, key words “finish”, “setbacks”, “diligent”, and “overcome” provide a good start to help structure the best interview questions to measure levels of grit in your applicants.

Young Workers’ Job Tenure Remains the Same: Short

Learning that the tenure for young workers’ didn’t get even shorter during “The Great Resignation” raised an internal alarm. How could it be that with so many open jobs that those young workers who stray so frequently didn’t stray even more?

Young Worker Safety Perceptions and Supervisor Trust

Young workers are much more willing to abandon relationships that feel insecure or unsafe, both at home and in their places of work…and are much more willing to welcome relationships where they feel safe to be their authentic selves.

What is the Worst Way to Increase Young Worker Retention? Promote Them!

29% of U.S. workers are quitting their jobs within one month of their first promotion. Yes, please read that sentence again. Given that we are talking about first promotions, maybe younger workers don’t see moving up the organization chart as worth the hassle, even for a jump in pay.

“The Great Resignation” Surprise – It’s Not Entry-Level Workers

The common belief is that the employees quitting during “The Great Resignation” are young and don’t make much money, so replacing their meager incomes is easily done. Two reports throw a heavy wrench into the assumption that the majority of quits are entry-level workers.

Five Steps to Gen Z & Millennial Employee Retention

Recent survey says these are the at-work values young workers hold most dear: Flexibility, mobility, entrepreneurial freedom. Lock these key employee retention words into your brain, make them pop up on your computer screen first thing each morning because 53% of your Gen Z and millennials will consider leaving this year.

Why Stay Interviews Q2 is “What Are You Learning Here?”

Why is Q2 “What are you learning here? And what do you want to learn?” Because Q2 is the low-hanging-fruit way for supervisors to identify how they can add one additional brick to the foundation of building trust with each member of their teams.

Quiet Quitting is Really a Retention Opportunity

We believe a good retention strategy moves you past lamenting about Quiet Quitters and keeps the focus on the opportunity to retain your best workers.

Gallagher Reports #1 Workforce Priority is Still Turnover

The highly-respected Gallagher 2023 Workforce Trends Report survey of 4,000+ organizations says that employee retention remains priority #1. Not only did 66% of HR executives say so, but more than half of operations executives did as well. So businesses who must get product out the door now see turnover as their main obstacle, just as nurse turnover drives patient-care shortcomings and ever-increasing agency costs.