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Why Do They Leave?
Employee Retention Motivational Factors: The Big Six Most employers know that attracting and retaining highly skilled employees is vital to their organizational success. However, some employers struggle to find the best means of keeping their employees engaged, often relying on one-time recognition awards or ad hoc communications. A kernel of truth to this state of…
An Inside Look at the Evolution of Employee Retention at FMP: A Veteran ‘FMPer’ Perspective
After reading last week’s blog and learning some of the ‘out-of-the-box’ perks that companies use to retain employees, I thought it would be interesting to look at how the perks and benefits at FMP have evolved to attract and retain employees. Specifically, I wanted to learn more about what we’ve done in the past, what we’re presently doing to retain our great workforce, and what FMP’s future plans are to retain employees for years to come. And, I…
Work Perks: Investigating Employee Incentives
What Are Work Perks? Since the economic boom in the US following WWII, employers have traditionally offered a selection of employee benefits as a form of indirect compensation. Some of these benefits are required by law (like unemployment insurance or workers compensation), while others have become so commonplace that they are often expected or assumed…
Recruitment & Retention: The Grass Isn’t Always Greener
If you could switch companies today, would you? Constant connectivity and innovative portable technology allows us to be online all.the.time. Whether it’s looking up LinkedIn posts and comparing others’ salaries via Glassdoor or scrolling Instagram liking your cousin’s vacation to the islands while you stayed home and had to brave the Snowpocalypse (coming again 2020),…
Quick Question: Are you actively managing your company’s culture?
As discussed in our first blog this month (“When in Rome”—Recognizing and Adapting to Organizational Culture), an organization’s culture is “a living, breathing, evolving aspect of an organization that differentiates it from other, otherwise similar organizations.” The culture of any organization is impacted by a set of intentional actions as well as the unintentional norms…