Identifying and Addressing Employee Turnover IssuesFiled under Managing the Workplace. Fact checked on May 24, 2012.
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PrintEmailLinkedInTwitterShareShare.High employee turnover can have a severe impact on your business, both financially and emotionally. If you suspect that turnover is an issue for your business, you should take steps to recognize possible causes of turnover, measure your turnover rate, determine turnover costs, and then address your turnover problems.

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Read more about Managing the Workplace »A high employee turnover rate, the rate at which employees leave a business, can affect the bottom line of businesses of all sizes. However, the negative effect on small businesses can be particularly harsh due to limited resources and the investment in employees. Because employees who are satisfied with their jobs generally don't give them up, high turnover is usually indicative of a problem.

That's not to say that every employee who leaves your company is unsatisfied — after all, some will retire, leave town, quit because of family circumstances, desire to change professions, or even start a business of their own. But if you have a lot of turnover and you're losing good employees, you may want to give some thought to the possibility that the cause of high employee turnover in your business is a morale problem.

Causes of High Turnover
The causes of turnover are related to the same factors that contribute to absenteeism — if workers are not interested in their jobs, they will either stay away or leave.

But being unhappy in a job is