How to Keep Your Best Employees: Retention for Small Companies

The cost of losing a key employee is 50 to 200 percent of their annual salary. Here is what actually drives retention at the 10 to 100 employee stage and what you can do about it.

Most employees who leave were not looking for a job when someone called them. They were already disengaged, and disengagement is almost always visible months before the resignation. Here is what drives retention at the small company stage and how to address it before you lose someone you cannot afford to lose.

What it actually costs to lose someone

Why employees actually leave

Manager quality is the variable that matters most

Career growth at the small company stage

Recognition and compensation as retention tools

The signals of impending departure