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Employee Retention & Engagement Strategies

Established in 2000 by organizational behavior expert Dr. Thomas F. Mahan, Work Institute is the go-to resource for employee retention programs, employee engagement strategies, and workplace solutions. Our workplace experts are here to help companies attract and retain talent, improve performance, diminish risk, and manage human capital cost by improving workplace conditions. Through commitment to matching research and analysis to the client’s needs and to asking the right questions, Work Institute provides employers with employee retention and engagement programs that drastically improve overall employee satisfaction, reduce costs, and promote profitable growth.

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Our Mission, Vision, & Attributes

Our Mission
To help organizations become increasingly better places to work.

Our Vision
Work Institute is the thought leader and go-to resource for data-based insight and solutions on the preferences, expectations, and intents of the workforce.

Our Attributes:

  1. Bring it on: We are driven, urgent, and passionate in tackling challenges and taking decisive action to achieve objectives.
  2. Get it done: We are resourceful and inventive in solving problems to achieve goals.
  3. Own it: We treat each other with respect in a collaborative, empathetic, and supportive environment. We do what we say we will do as a team.
  4. Keep score: We relentlessly measure progress to continuously learn, improve, and grow.
  5. Have fun: We have a fun and flexible environment where humor is a good thing and a symbol of the great work that is happening.

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Our Clients Get Real Results

Utilizing our unique approach gives employees a REAL voice. Our clients dramatically reduce turnover, improve retention, and save their organizations millions of dollars in costs of turnover and lost productivity.

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Our Approach

WHAT THEY SAY

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“I never had the resources to do my job. Every time I brought it up, the company said it would be addressed but it never was.”

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“Upper management was awful. We once got an email stating that ‘he would allow us to have Labor Day off’ and that ‘you better enjoy it because next week is going to be very tough.’ Labor Day is a company holiday.”

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