Others need the security and comfort provided by feeling close to the people with whom they work. Even at entry-level positions, once the financial threshold has been met, satisfying survival and security needs, these other factors become significant. Quitting is almost always because of incompatibility with managers or a feeling of lack of appreciation and recognition. Consequently, if we want to retain our employees, we must look primarily to the work environment, its creative challenges, the quality of life within the workplace, and the style in which people are managed, in order to increase our odds. When turnover is reduced, overall productivity increases, as does the bottom line.
Happy employees tend to work harder, more efficiently and certainly more creatively.
In addition, those extras that make life easier for employees help tip the scale in the direction of a desire to stay. Remember, all people are not alike. All needs are not alike and of course not all companies can create the same type of work quality of life. What has been listed here are suggestions to stimulate your creativity in solving your particular work-place needs. What must be done is to dispense with the old notions developed in the early days of the industrial revolution when the supply by far exceeded the demand.