The top 8 ways to retain your employees

Keeping employees on the job continues to be a struggle for many companies; 47% report that they have had to replace more than 20% of their workforce during the past 12 months, according to recruitment agency Spherion Staffing. So what’s an employer to do? For starters, it helps to know what makes a job appealing to an employee. Here are their top 8 considerations, according to workers surveyed by Spherion.

Employees are increasingly demanding demand higher salaries from their current employer or seeking them elsewhere, according to Spherion’s 2016 Emerging Workforce Study. More than half (51%) feel the expanding job market gives them more power to negotiate a higher salary, either with their current company or with another.