Some helpful strategies for reducing employee turnover:

• Taking care in recruiting, screening, and hiring employees and in orienting new employees to the organization
• Paying wages and providing benefits in line with local and industry norms and commensurate with employee contributions
• Ensuring that good management and supervisory practices are employed
• Maintaining open, honest, and two-way lines of communication
• Respectfully recognizing employees’ accomplishments and contributions
• Providing a positive new employee orientation experience and follow-up training opportunities
• Providing special benefits such a “family-friendly” benefits and flextime
• Providing opportunities for professional growth and advancement within the company
• Companies can act proactively to address the factors that prevent turnover and promote staff retention. The necessary steps include a comprehensive assessment of turnover related factors in the company, identifying those that can be changed, and establishing a plan to address them.