Signs that an employee will quit appear 9 months before they do

Signs that an employee will quit appear 9 months before they doSigns that an employee will quit appear 9 months before they doThe signs an employee is going to quit appear about nine months before they actually do, in the form of reduced engagement the level of interest an employee has in their work on various levels, a new study from employee-retention platform Peakon shows.Their data came from 33 million employee survey responses from 125 countries, including 36,000 from employees who actually quit an organization.Follow Ladders on FlipboardFollow Ladders magazines on Flipboard covering Happiness, Productivity, Job Satisfaction, Neuroscience, and moreThe first sign that an employee is considering quitting came from a survey response about engagement How likely is it you would recommend Company Name as a place to work?Another question, gauging loyalty, asked If you were offered the same job at another organization, how likely is it that you would stay with Company Name?Loyalty on the declineFor the employees that quit, the engagement and loyalty scores rapidly declined started from nine months to the day they left.Looking at all the graphs or trend lines of people who are leaving their work, theres a quite significant drop at the nine-month mark for a lot of the drivers that end of being the leading indicators, which is fairly consistent. Which is something we were surprised to see, said Kasper Hulthin, Peakon Co-founder and Chief Growth Officer.Its falling engagement and whatever causes it that leads to employees slowly inching their way out the door, the study found. Their loyalty a natural outcome of engagement, the researchers wrote starts to decline as well.The other key issues also have to do with engagement as well.The factors that start to drop aresense of accomplishmentneed to feel appropriately rewarded for their workthe need to talk openly about pay with their managers, which is also important because it supports their self-wortha path for dev elopmentIn many cases, it came down to managers. People quit because they were unhappy with their managers (not because of their colleagues or because of company culture). Once again, the old people quit bosses, not companies axiom is proved true.You might also enjoyNew neuroscience reveals 4 rituals that will make you happyStrangers know your social class in the first seven words you say, study finds10 lessons from Benjamin Franklins daily schedule that will double your productivityThe worst mistakes you can make in an interview, according to 12 CEOs10 habits of mentally strong people