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Stay Interviews

Stay Interviews are quickly entering the vernacular of the business world and providing an alternative to the traditional engagement/satisfaction survey. Intent to stay is one of the most important questions to ask when assessing employee engagement, but there is a catch. Almost every employee survey has a question regarding “intent to stay.” However, the most important question, is WHY? If we only have a statistical measure of our employees’ intent to stay, that data leaves out this important question. Companies have to know why employees plan to stay or leave and the duration they plan to remain at the organization. The only way to really get the answers to these questions and build an engaged workforce, is to conduct stay interviews.

Generate Reliable Workforce Intelligence to Know:

  • Who is thinking about leaving the organization? Why?
  • Who intends to stay? For how long? Why?
  • What changes can be made to increase the likelihood of an employee staying?
  • Would employees recommend the company as a good place to work? Why?
  • Do any unethical practices or behaviors exist within the company? Where?
  • What is the biggest concern about the company? How can this be addressed?

Stay interviews benefit your company by helping you to:

  • Improve the employee experience
  • Increase employee productivity
  • Increase retention
  • Decrease human capital expense in the form of turnover costs
  • Reduce risks associated with employee dissatisfaction
  • Grow revenue
  • Increase customer experience

To retain talented employees and reduce human capital costs, companies must understand and respond to the ever evolving preferences, expectations, and intents of the workplace. Taking a proactive approach by conducting stay interviews throughout the organization in a pulse model (surveying 25% of the population or certain populations each quarter) will provide the data necessary to make evidence-based decisions to improve your workplace.

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Why The Work Institute

The Work Institute offers customized solutions to get to the root of how people respond to your organization. With our emphasis on verbatim comments and live behavioral interviews, we get the best information—so we can give you the best information.

In the world of workforce research (i.e. employee surveys) the key objective is to measure or diagnose specific employee issues that are occurring in an organization.