Staff retention in Cape Town: why employees leave and how to keep them

Every time an employee walks out the door, they take their training, their client relationships, their institutional knowledge, and their productivity with them. Then you spend weeks or months finding, hiring, and training a replacement — while the rest of your team carries the extra workload. The full cost of hiring a replacement is typically two to three times the departing employee's monthly salary. Staff retention isn't about ping-pong tables and free fruit. It's about addressing the real re...