What Makes Great Employees Quit A Workplace
Have you as an employee or an employer wondered why people keep leaving a particular organisation ?
Have you checked how long employees stayed in an organisation before taking that job offer?
A simple analysis may explain why employees are “voting with their feet” and choosing to leave a business. By talking openly with current and former employees, recruiters, managers and business owners, we discover the reasons behind unhappiness and why people choose to leave. They can then work to rectify an unhappy working environment.
Here are five of the most common reasons why employees leave a company:
1. Lack of flexible work options:
An organisation with no flexible work hour will most likely have its employee leaving frequently. Some employers seem to forget that employees have a life after the 9 to 5 work hours and even expect their employees to work on weekends. Except this has been stated earlier in the employment letter, this should not be the order of things.
To attract and retain the best talent, many companies have begun to incorporate some degree of flexible working as part of their core employee offering, with initiatives ranging from compressed hours to flexitime and remote working.
2. Wanting to work remotely:
With COVID-19 which literally shaped the world, I think you would agree with me that a lot of organisations especially those in the tech and digital sectors where a laptop with stable wi-fi connection can complete most of the day’s tasks had to work from home and even realised more productivity.
Gallup’s research into the impact of various benefits and perks found that 37% of workers would switch to a job that allowed them to work off-site at least part of the time.
3. Feeling burnt out :
This is a major reason why employees quit their jobs. Three primary causes were identified as unfair compensation, unreasonable workload and too much overtime, other factors such as poor management, lack of clear alignment between work and corporate goals, and a negative workplace culture also contributed.Overworking your employees all in the name of giving recognition for great performance makes an employee feel punished and getting ready to leave.
If an employer plans to increase workload, then they should be ready to increase employee job status, offer promotions, salary raises, title changes.
4. Relationship with management:
The relationship with a direct line manager is critical to several employee success factors including productivity, morale and engagement. But a breakdown of that relationship, for whatever reason, can lead to mistrust, anxiety and job dissatisfaction.
A more recent study released this year by CareerAddict of 1,000 workers, found that 79% would consider bad leadership as a factor in deciding to quit. Four in ten went so far as to say they would return to their old job if their former boss was replaced.
5. Lack of career growth :
Upward mobility is important to every employee and career stagnation can bring those dreams to a grinding halt. There is more to working than a paycheque . Of course, pay is a big motivator, but it is not a major motivator.
People like to feel that they are being challenged or that they are the “go-to” person to resolve particular problems. No one likes to feel they are replaceable or mere cogs in a larger mechanism.
What other factors do you think makes employees leave their organisations . Please drop a comment as I had like to know other factors.
