{"id":1485,"date":"2008-03-26T07:45:56","date_gmt":"2008-03-26T12:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/03\/retention-is-the-toughest-challenge\/"},"modified":"2008-03-26T07:15:15","modified_gmt":"2008-03-26T12:15:15","slug":"retention-is-the-toughest-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/03\/retention-is-the-toughest-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Retention Is The Toughest Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.inc.com\/news\/articles\/2008\/03\/talent.html?partner=rss\">Inc.com has a short article<\/a> reporting the survey results of HR professionals that shows a shifting trend:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a survey of 413 HR professionals, more than half identified talent management as their top priority, and were planning to improve their rewards and benefits programs.<\/p>\n<p>Most employers cited employee retention among their five toughest challenges, ahead of health-care costs, the survey found. Last year, 80 percent identified health-care costs as their biggest challenge.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I fully expect retention will move into the top spot and stay there for quite some time (i.e. years) as the Boomers retire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inc.com has a short article reporting the survey results of HR professionals that shows a shifting trend: In a survey of 413 HR professionals, more than half identified talent management as their top priority, and were planning to improve their rewards and benefits programs. Most employers cited employee retention among their five toughest challenges, ahead of health-care costs, the survey found. Last year, 80 percent identified health-care costs as their biggest challenge. I fully expect retention will move into the top spot and stay there for quite some time (i.e. years) as the Boomers retire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23,5],"tags":[469,468,1766,467],"class_list":["post-1485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retention","category-trends","tag-hr-challenges","tag-hr-priorities","tag-retention","tag-retention-trend"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-nX","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":607,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/01\/when-drivers-of-retention-are-misaligned\/","url_meta":{"origin":1485,"position":0},"title":"When Drivers Of Retention Are Misaligned","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"January 25, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm a little late to the party on this post from Spherion's The Big Time blog. 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