The Manager's Pocket Guide to Generation X

11.A New Approach toRetention: Leaving without Really Leaving

 

Recruiting new employees can be time consuming and expensive. Sometimes, you have to recruit two or three or four employees just to add one new highperforming value-adder to the team—someone who is going to stick around for a while. Then you have to train them and that costs money. It can take anywhere from six to twenty-four months before new employees earn more for an organization than they cost. If you are losing employees inside the first two years, you may be getting a zero return on your recruiting and training investment. That’s a problem. Granted, there are some employees you are probably happy to bid good riddance. But, what about the solid performers, and worst of all, ...