News: Performance Management
'Leisure sector faces employee retention difficulties'
23 April 2008
Despite the economic slowdown, businesses in the leisure sector are finding it hard to recruit and retain staff, a survey has found.
In the poll of more than 900 employees and almost 300 employers carried out by leisure sector recruitment specialist The Buzz, 60 per cent of people questioned said they had been in their current job for less than two years while 68 per cent were planning to find a new place to work within the next six months, Onrec.com reports.
Some 39 per cent of respondents said they were considering changing jobs due to their pay, 28 per cent because of their workplace culture while 26 per cent cited a lack of training opportunities as a reason to leave.
The Buzz's managing director, Bala Shanmugam urged employers understand what motivates their workforce.
"Employers will need to create an environment that gives their people the flexibility and variety they seek, together with the training and development to succeed and the autonomy to get on with it," he explained.
The survey's findings follow calls from Victoria Winkler, training and development adviser at the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, that employers should invest more in their staff during times of economic difficulty.
