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No matter what industry an employee is working in, they want to feel valued, satisfied, and fulfilled. Sometimes, certain business environments or experiences can make it difficult for employees to stay long-term without sacrificing their mental health and stability. If you’ve been struggling to hold on to your employees, here are a few things that you can do to reduce your employee turnover.

Create a Healthy Culture

First off, it is so important that you create a healthy culture at your business. You need to make sure that each of your employees feels valued, like their voice and opinions are heard. If your employees feel criticized, threatened, judged, or belittled, they won’t want to continue working for you. Make sure that you are sufficiently training your employees and praising and encouraging them in their different responsibilities. The communication patterns and methods that you use in your business are also very important. If you need to correct an employee, make sure that you use constructive criticism, and that you praise their strengths. Always be conscious of the tone of voice that you’re using and be careful to not use any vocabulary that could feel unhealthy or attacking. Work on building a coaching culture.

Offer Good Benefits

Next, you need to make sure you’re offering good incentives and benefits for your employees. This will help to convince them that they want to stay at your business because the benefits will make it worth it for them. These benefits could be anything from paid time off to employee vacations to raises to a company retirement plan. These different benefits can really persuade your employees to stay at your company. For example, a safe harbor 401(k) plan can avoid non-discrimination testing. This can make all of your employees feel seen and cared for.

Be Flexible

Finally, make sure that you are sufficiently flexible with your employees. Of course, you have a business that needs to be run and shifts that need to be covered, but you need to remember that your employees are human beings with personal needs. If you want them to stick around, you need to be flexible with them. When your employees have a personal emergency, family commitment, sick day, maternity leave, or any other kind of unexpected responsibility, make sure that you let them take care of those needs. If you don’t, they’ll end up feeling frustrated and burnt out, and won’t stay with your business.

So, whether you’re just starting up a small business or you’ve been running one for years, remember that everything you do determines which employees will continue to work for you. Make sure that you create a healthy culture, offer good benefits, and are flexible with your employees. This will create an environment that your employees will prosper in and want to be loyal to.

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