In 2018, workers quit at the highest rates since 2001, and experts predict that the trend will continue into 2019. But according to LinkedIn's 2019 Workforce Learning Report, 94 percent of employees say that they would stay at a company longer if it simply invested in helping them learn.
Via Barry Deutsch, Heather Teegarden
Helping people to learn is a powerful tool in your kit for employee engagement and retention. As the study points out it could make the difference in retaining good people - why do most employers have a weak training and development program for their employees?
Are they worried if they train - then their employees will take the training and go elsewhere - thus a waste of training dollars?
Nothing could be further from the truth - training keeps people engaged - it doesn't repel them.