Some companies are still going for broke to retain good people. Retooling Your Work for the 21st Century. I think that the reckless behavior toward retention has slowed down, varying across industries and regions. Companies are focusing on retaining critical skills, key talent, high potentials, those with significant leverage of the future. Employers are trying to create a workplace where people will want to work and continue to work.
People jump around like fleas.
They want to keep up their skills in a field where everything moves quickly. Educational benefits tend to be particularly attractive to this group. Although many bosses say they'd be lost without their key administrative assistants, it's taken a number of years for them to respond to the value they perceive by investing in retention practices, including increased training, at that level in the workplace. Corporate raiding and team loyalty are other reasons cited by Haver. However, if a team breaks up, that has negative reverberations for the company.