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March 22, 2007

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What is the biggest reason for employee attrition ?

Filed under: Software Services, Career, Project Management — Prakash Muralidharan @ 12:58 pm
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4 Comments »

  1. Research shows the reasons for employee departures are, in descending order…

    1. Employee/manager relationship
    2. Inability to use core skills
    3. Not able to impact the organization’s goals, mission
    4. Frequent reorganizations; lack of control over career
    5. Inability to “grow and develop”
    6. Employee/organization values misalignment
    7. Lack of resources to do the job
    8. Unclear expectations
    9. Lack of flexibility; no ‘whole life balance’
    10. Salary/benefits

    Comment by David — March 22, 2007 @ 4:13 pm

  2. Thanks David. Guess the “bad boss” phenomenon is your winner.

    Comment by Prakash — March 22, 2007 @ 5:36 pm

  3. Prakash: A RB based poll makes it too simplistic. In my view, it depends on the context. At what stage of career an employee is, role he is playing, work/lack of it, compensation, onsite opportunities etc etc. The triggers for a 2 year experience S/W pro quitting vs a mid mgmt pro quitting are different.

    I would take it as “one or more”

    Raj

    Comment by Raj — March 23, 2007 @ 9:01 am

  4. Thanks Raj for the comments.

    Comment by Prakash — March 23, 2007 @ 9:21 am

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