Your employer clients have a retention problem they don’t know about yet. It’s not compensation. It’s not culture. It’s not competitors poaching their best people. It’s a 48-year-old project manager running on four hours of sleep because her mother fell again last night, quietly researching assisted-living facilities on her phone under her office desk. She’s one bad week from resigning. Her exit interview will say “personal reasons.” Nobody will connect the dots.
I’ve been in this business nearly 50 years. I’ve watched the industry reinvent itself more times than I can count. But I’ve never seen a gap this wide between what employees are carrying and what employers think is happening.
