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Best Practices For Retaining Employees
14 Mar 2022
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The Great Resignation has negatively impacted businesses throughout the United States and the world. As CBS reported, in October 4.2 million Americans left their positions for other job opportunities.
Luke Pardue, Chief Economist of Gusto, told CBS “We serve 200,000 businesses across the country and can use their payroll data to track the Great Resignation. We can look at quits by industry and gender… Women have been quitting work at 1.1 % higher than men… Looking at November and December we aren’t seeing record highs, but the trend is continuing.”
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