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Nov 20, 2024

Employee Retention in 2025: 12 Stats to Shape HR Strategy

by Gordon Polovin

If there’s one thing we love, it’s data. From data-driven decisions to facts in evidence, real numbers help us uncover real insights. Strong stats help us highlight areas of concern and opportunity so we can build understanding, galvanize action, and make a difference. One key area where this will be important in 2025? Employee retention. In 2024, Gallup research reports and other respected data-centric projects reviewed employee retention and engagement over several years, measuring staff loyalty, commitment to corporate goals, and churn – the likelihood of leaving the job in the near future. The favored methodology was professional surveying of representative samples, asking insightful questions to help stakeholders better strategize their HR. This article covers these investigations from corner to corner to deliver the perspectives you need and deserve. We will provide analysis, evaluations, and recommendations based on an extensive range of probes. Employee retention data insights for 2025 We’ve gathered insights in several different areas. The first five are from a Gallup report covering 2024 and multiple previous years. 1: Looking for a new job The Gallup Question: “To what extent are you currently looking for a different job than the one you have now?” In 2024, 51% answered “actively” – matching the same response for 2014 (the two highest data points over a decade) – 21% more than in 2018 (the strongest loyalty indicator within the research window). When one in every two employees seriously considers job skipping, it’s a flashing alert signal that HR value propositions are […]

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