Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2013

Year Up is empowering urban young adults with the skills, experience, and support to move them from poverty to professional careers in one year. Growing the organization helps us to serve more students directly, but it also drives down staff attrition by creating opportunities for advancement that rival the private sector.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2014

First the bad news: most of those employers aren’t doing much to provide their new hires with the training and support they need to get their careers off to a strong start. For top candidates, a company offering a strong talent development program and showing real dedication to new hires’ career advancement is very positively differentiated.

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Training Attrition ROI Talent Management 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2018

In other words, what employees saw on a careers site or on their company’s social channels, or what they heard from recruiters, was often inconsistent with what they experienced when they joined the company. a record low, creates the perfect storm for employee attrition. The timing couldn’t be worse.

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Reputation Brand How To Attrition 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2013

Like many organizations, SSoM requires an "all-in" commitment from its faculty members, which often translates to punishing hours that aren''t exactly conducive to work-life balance. A key aspect has been the development of Academic Biomedical Career Customization (ABCC).

Planning 10

Planning Policies Attrition Banking 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2016

to understand the relationship between how organizations talk about diversity and the rates of attrition of associate-level women and racial minority attorneys at these firms. We first studied the public diversity statements of 151 big law firms in the U.S. The other approach is an appeal to equality and fairness irrespective of differences.

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Diversity Attrition Bottom-up Business Objectives 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2017

Victims don’t want to call others bigots or be accused of “playing the diversity card” — these options can be career limiting. Pervasive: 66% said it impacts all aspects of their engagement, morale, motivation, commitment, and desire to advance in the organization.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Today, about 35% of physicians are women , and the representation will only increase as women—who constitute over half of new medical students —proceed through the career pipeline. Another way to think about the size of the effect is to consider only first-year cadets, who have the worst attrition rates.

Attrition 8

Attrition Class Company Mentor 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2013

In addition, attrition in the early-career professional ranks was significantly higher than that for longer-service employees. The graph, and other data, pointed out a serious problem that the company hadn’t been aware of: It had a dire need to recruit more engineers to meet both existing and future commitments to customers.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2018

All three organizations said they were committed to diversity and were attempting to hire, retain, and promote more women engineers. However, numbers remained persistently low, and in all three organizations attrition was high, especially among junior women. This was used by early-career women to generate support from colleagues.

Engineering 8

Engineering Management Career Attrition 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2015

We’ve all heard by now that productivity decreases with overwork, while attrition and health care costs increase. This is popular both with lawyers who self-identify as stay-at-home parents and with those who have second careers (Counsel on Call is headquartered in Nashville and provides day jobs for musician-lawyers there).

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Entrepreneur Attrition Business Model 8

CoachStation

AUGUST 26, 2022

We’ve also learned that one in two employees have left a job to get away from a manager and improve their overall life at some point in their career. The McKinsey group recently published an excellent resource regarding attrition and the reasons why people leave organisations. We are a team of 9 and I am already 2 staff down.

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Motivation McKinsey Attrition Influence 130

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

That’s important, not because I think MBAs should be more like SEALS—I don’t—but because real-world excellence requires more than commitment to educational achievement. Before we redid the course, SEAL sniper school had an average attrition rate of about 30 percent.

Training 8

Training Education Incentives Leadership 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2017

Paid leave is not merely a women’s issue for this generation: 78% of Millennials are part of a two-career couple , and it is the growing expectation of Millennial workers that both partners will work and parent. Companies that have expanded their paid leave offerings have seen the attrition of new mothers drop by as much as 50%.

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Policies Press Release Attrition Fashion 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

It fits in with their mantra of “ treating employees like adults ,” deftly negotiating professional and familial commitments in the way that works for them. Female leave-takers risk triggering a documented stereotype —mothers are less competent, less committed to the company. Netflix’s model sends a message.

Company 8

Company Policies Attrition Long-term 8

N2Growth Blog

MARCH 5, 2025

High attrition disrupts workflows, increases recruitment costs, and damages morale. Publicly acknowledging achievements, offering career development pathways, and creating an environment of appreciation can foster loyalty and commitment. Recognizing and rewarding contributions : Recognition goes beyond monetary incentives.

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