Employee Retention
topic on 5 shows · 8 statements across 8 episodes
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8 statements about Employee Retention, every show
Bookman: Remote Workers End Up Quitting Due to Isolation and Disconnection
“It's the disaffection. It's the, I don't want to be paternalistic, but my colleague, Tiago, who is our one of our key leaders here, he said, look, people think they're happier sitting at home, and they're not. And they end up quitting like a week later. They s…”
Gerstner: Unnecessary $500M mega-rounds trigger secondary demands and erode employee retention
“You can't go raise another five hundred million and not have pressure from all your employees for employee secondary For spending more money on more projects, et cetera, and the NPV on those other activities will be lower, and the incentive your employees have…”
Narayanan: Employees leave when any of four job satisfaction pillars fail
“It's for four, four different reasons. One is they love what they do. Number two, they love the people they work with. Number three, they Feel like they can learn from the people that they work with and for the company is going up into the right. If one of the…”
Auren Hoffman: Employee Retention Rates Do Not Reflect Company Performance
“Just because everyone's leaving, like in Facebook's case, where so many of the first 25 people left early doesn't mean that's a bad company. It turned out to be an amazing company. Just because everyone's staying doesn't mean it's a good company.”
Berkowitz: Lack of leadership transparency drives more turnover than honest bad news
“If you are not transparent with your employees and telling them what's really going on, they will write their own stories and you'll, you'll lose far more people who just sort of imagine that things are terrible than just telling the answer.”
Lieberman: 100% remote companies cannot match in-person retention and connection
“I'm going to go with thumbs down. I just think it's impossible to build the connection that is necessary to have people have enough affinity for a company to stay there for a long time. So I think retention becomes really difficult beyond other things like com…”
Amoruso: Culture and learning retain employees, not health insurance perks
“They're gonna leave your company because your culture sucks, or because they're not learning, or because somebody's micromanaging them. Like, yes, it's a carrot, but it's not what keeps people around.”
Srinivasan: High Customer Empathy Boosts Employee Retention by 16 Points
“When we've surveyed individuals who believe that their companies display a high degree of empathy for their customers, 82% of them believe that they'll still be at their job two years from now. Pretty darn high. When we have surveyed those who believe that the…”