Recruitment glossary

What is Employee Retention?

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Employee retention is the organisational goal to keep current employees and reduce turnover. Efforts can be made by an organisation to promote better employee retention rates by promoting employee engagement, fostering a safe and inclusive culture, showing appreciation to employees and by providing competitive pay and benefits and healthy work/life balance.

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