On the heels of COVID and amid the Great Resignation, frontline employee industries are looking to combat the traditionally high turnover model (for retail workers alone, the turnover rate is 81%). 401(k)s are never far from most employers’ lists of effective retention strategies. And with good reason. 401(k) matches and similar retirement savings benefits such […]
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The Cause of the Great Resignation (& How You Can Better Retain Employees)
The pandemic has caused employees to reevaluate their work priorities — and turn in their two-week notice. Known as the “Great Resignation,” a record four million people quit their jobs in April 2021 alone. The desire for things like flexibility and new career paths contribute largely to this mass exodus. However, the issue goes even […]
Saving for emergencies: Daniel’s story
We often hear statistics that simplify the story of a person down to a single number. We do that too – we share the statistic from Marketplace-Edison Research that finds that nearly half of Americans would have trouble coming up with $250 for an unexpected expense. But people are more than numbers, and so I […]
