Fixing Turnover: How HR Consulting Helps You Keep Your Best People
Losing a strong employee costs more than most business owners expect. Once you account for recruiting, onboarding, and lost productivity while the role sits open, replacing someone often runs six months to a year of their salary. For a small business without a dedicated HR function, that kind of cost can be difficult to recover.
The natural response is to look at pay. Maybe a competitor made a better offer, or the market shifted and your salaries didn’t keep pace. That’s a real factor sometimes. But when turnover is a pattern, compensation is rarely the whole story. More often, the issue lives somewhere in the day-to-day experience of working there.