It's no secret employee retention rates are on the decline. Everywhere we turn, we’re seeing employee turnover, which costs money and hurts company culture. While employee happiness is essential for retaining employees, it can be challenging to know how to keep your employees happy, so they stay at their job.
We’ve done the research for you and come up with three ways that you can keep your employees happy so they truly want to stay working for you!
Keep Your Employee’s Job Interesting
Much of an employee’s job satisfaction depends on exciting work. Processes, procedures and repetitive day-to-day responsibilities and job functions can be mundane—especially if they aren’t challenging enough. Next thing you know, your once happy employees are hitting the job search boards and doing secret job interviews during their lunch breaks.
While almost every job has specific tasks that can be far from exciting, nobody wants to live the mundane all day, every day. One way to keep an employee’s job interesting is by increasing their responsibilities and giving them duties that let them stretch the limits of their abilities. Ask them for their ideas and input - let them know you value their input.
The bottom line, here, is that employees want to feel they are contributing to their work and the company’s goals in a meaningful way. Challenge them and you’re halfway there.
Offer Employee Development Programs
Along with giving your employees more responsibility, let them know you want them to grow in their careers by offering employee development programs. These are a great way to keep your employees engaged and interested in their job.
Employee development programs can include formal mentoring between managers and new hires, offering continuing education classes on-site, or even financially contributing to your employees’ professional development.
Offer Employee Benefits Outside the Norm
Employee satisfaction is also tied to the benefits they receive from their employers. Something simple and outside of the box like flex time can easily increase employee retention rates.
Here are a few other things to consider incorporating into your employee experience strategy:
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- Ensuring a healthy work-life balance
- Scheduling quarterly staff events - outside of work
- Create company-wide games - a little healthy competition with a gift card as the reward is sure to keep your employees productive and interested
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One last thing - show them your gratitude. By offering your sincere praise and encouragement, as their manager, you’re not only going to improve their motivation and happiness at work, but you’re also creating an opportunity to make sure your employees feel engaged and interested.
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