

Employee turnover – let’s change our attitude about it
The dreaded employee turnover rate regularly hovers around 25% or even 30% at many nonprofits. A 2019 Nonprofit Standards benchmarking survey found that 60% of nonprofit organizations report that staff retention and recruitment is either a moderate or high challenge for them, particularly those that employ a significant amount of direct service workers. This should be expected. It’s just how it is…right? We have this idea in nonprofit work that employee turnover is the norm