Retention and resilience

I like to frame employee retention as tent stakes. When pitching a tent, one hammers tent stakes into the ground to keep the tent from blowing away in a brisk gust of wind. Similarly, in one’s employment, there are specific reasons, articulated or not, why someone sticks with a company. When reorgs, strategy shifts, and market downturns start ripping up some of the tent stakes, as long as someone…