If there is an incentive for a company to have an effective staff retention policy it must surely be the huge expense of recruitment. Similarly it makes sense to put effort into retaining staff rather than recruiting. Besides, when it comes to IT staff, the biggest learning curve is rarely base-line technical skills, rather it is site knowledge.
Recruitment is expensive.
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