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Why Employees Jump Ship

by bob weinstein

May 8, 2008


Contrary to popular belief, lousy pay is not often the primary reason for quitting a job. Not that money isn’t important, but it’s seldom the primary reason most people change jobs.
 
If you take job insecurity as a given, statistics predict that you won’t be working for the same company a decade from now. You’re very likely to have two more jobs. Even though frequent job changes often have a lot to do with variables beyond your control--mergers or acquisitions, or economic or market uncertainties--there are common reasons why people change jobs.
 
Gregory P. Smith, author of Here Today, Here Tomorrow: Transforming Your Workforce from High-Turnover to High-Retention, says that most employees take new jobs because of management problems. He lists five common management mistakes:
 
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