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Curbing Employee Turnover Contagion in the Workplace

Visier

Turnover Contagion: Tracing the Source. It’s also a lesson for HR leaders looking to treat a viral event of a different sort: turnover contagion. Turnover contagion happens when people quit their jobs simply because other people are talking about leaving, job searching, or actually jumping ship. Quitting is contagious.

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Around the Bonfyre: Diana Bentz on Enhancing Employee Development and Benefits

Bonfyre

Attraction and retention – by investing in development, new benefits, recognition and rewards, and improving our post-survey action planning process. New benefits: paid parental leave, bringing back tuition reimbursement (gone since 2009), subsidies for student loans, child care, and elder care, and transit passes for family members.

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Why We Need Retail Employee Engagement Now More Than Ever

Bonfyre

When the Great Recession hit in 2009, retail, like many other industries, suffered heavy losses. Retail turnover is breaking records–bad ones. Retention is a commonly accepted signifier of employee engagement , but in retail a high turnover rate is expected. However, retail turnover has been trending upwards as of late.

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Employee Engagement in NHS Healthcare

Interact-Intranet

More explicitly still, MacLeod and Clarke (2009) identify the core element of engagement as the relationship; “it is when the business values the employee and the employee values the business.”. Measurement of engagement within the NHS is undertaken through the annual NHS Staff Survey, which introduced the element in 2009.

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Causes of Employee Turnover

Bonusly

Turnover is influenced by many factors that generally come from two directions: external forces and internal forces. We’ll start with external forces, though, because it helps to be aware of how much they contribute to fluctuations so that you can make effective decisions about retention. Average turnover rate. businesses.

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Easy Ways to Improve Your Healthcare Recruiting Process

Hireology

When I first heard this phrase our country was in the throes of the 2008 / 2009 financial crisis and things looked very bleak for our country. Retention rates and turnover. Are your retention numbers improving by implementing these qualification measures in your hiring process? Labor costs.

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iCIMS - Technology for Induction - and ensuring Quality of Hire ~ HR.

Strategic HCM

The high first year turnover experienced in many, many organisations isn’t usually down to poor selection, it’s about everything else that’s going on instead. Perhaps less intuitively, iCIMS are also seeing positive impacts on their client’s engagement scores and retention rates as well. ► 2009.