Hiring Wisdom: Top 10 Ways to Avoid Costly Hourly Employee Turnover

Sep 22, 2014

In order to minimize costly frontline, hourly employee turnover, you’ve got to:

Hire tough (so you can manage easy).
Let every new employee know why their job is important.
Avoid the mindset that it is “only an entry-level job” (in both the new employee’s mind and in your own mind).
Pay the highest wages you can afford. (When you can pay more, then you can expect and get more.)
Give a pay raise as soon as the new employee deserves one (not on a time schedule, but on a productivity/ learning schedule).
Give recognition when recognition is deserved.
Train for process, not for speed.
Help the new employee make friends at work.
Learn to fail fast. (When you realize you made a hiring mistake, release and replace that person immediately.)
Make work FUN!!

This was originally published on Mel Kleiman’s Humetrics blog.

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