
Strategies for Enhancing Employee Retention figure 1 Employee Retention What is Employee Retention? Employee retention refers to the amount of employees who stay with their organization over a specific time period. Typically, these individuals are only considered "retained" if they are satisfied, engaged, productive, and not looking for another job.(Diwakar singh 2019) Employee retention strategies help organizations prevent high turnover, usually through boosting employee engagement and providing competitive benefits. Over the past 18 months, millions of workers from many industries have left their jobs in a widespread departure from the workplace. Numerous theories have been put out to explain the mass departure, but studies suggest that a host of factors, including low pay, little opportunities for career progression, unsatisfactory work-life balance, overall dissatisfaction with management or the organization, could be to blame. High turnover, some of which coul...