Top 10 ways to keep employees from quitting

Top 10 ways to keep employees from quitting -- Most leaders know that it's far more costly to hire a new employee than retain an existing one, but what's leading good employees to quit? Jefferson Frank just produced an excellent report on the top 10 factors leading to employee attrition in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) engineering community. 
 
Several factors are what you'd expect -- a lack of salary increases and career prospects come in at the top. As you'd expect there's more that keeps top engineers engaged and, clearly, when tech leaders reign in developers and don't provide a compelling vision for how the work will make an impact the top talent heads elsewhere.

That's the opportunity -- for companies to trust their engineers by giving them access to cutting-edge tools and providing compelling challenges that inspire them to join and stay committed to making a difference.