One of the biggest challenges that most businesses and corporations encounter is the ability to retain good employees. The main aspect that is a constant variable when it comes to employee turnover is dissatisfaction of the employee. Here are just a few others that correlate with that dissatisfaction.
- Unfair working hours. Some employees are sometimes required to work more hours than they want to work. However, there are those that want the overtime for the additional OT pay. A few businesses do not mandate overtime, most strongly encourage it, and this is where employees feel forced into longer hours to maintain job security.
- Uncomfortable work environment. If there is a comfortable and pleasant work place than that will be conducive to higher morale and improved productivity. It has been shown that businesses that utilize the traditional cubicles that the employees feel like they are in jail cells. It is more advantageous to create workstations in which multiple people are grouped as team units.
- Inadequate equipment or inefficient equipment. There are instances during employee exit interviews that it is stated that they were unhappy with the company’s use of inefficient or even obsolete equipment to the point they could not successfully fulfill their job obligations.
- Bureaucratic red tape. This is a complaint heard frequently. Instances where it takes 2-3 weeks to get a decision on a problem or question. The problem? Going through multiple sources to get the issue to the right person instead of being able to go straight to the source. Organizations have begun reconstructing their policies and procedures to reduce this red tape.