5+ remote employee retention strategies to keep your top performers

What if I told you that 73% of employees are looking for new opportunities. Yes, that includes your own team members who might not be happy with the team culture, company organization, or development paths.

Focusing your HR efforts on your employee retention strategy brings a series of benefits that make it impossible to omit it out of your daily routine, including:

• Reducing recruitment and training costs
• Maintaining a strong team culture
• Improving employee wellness efforts and reducing job burnout
• Increasing productivity
• Boosting morale and happiness at work
• Supporting company-wide transparency and increasing trust
• Providing a better customer experience and increasing revenue

But before we get into the nitty-gritty of remote employee retention strategies, let’s talk about the elephant in the room:

Why do employees leave?

There’s a couple of obvious reasons why someone would leave a company: low pay, negative relationships with their colleagues, looking for a new challenge, wanting to be a part of a different work culture.

But then there’s the reasons we seem to neglect:

• 12% of workers seek a better work-life balance
• 24% wish they received more recognition for their work
• 8 out of 10 people will start looking for a new job after experiencing one single bad day at their current workplace
• Burnout is making individuals 2.3 times for likely to look for new opportunities

Remote employee retention strategies aren’t costly and will help you fix all of the issues above. Here’s how.