By Rita Babalola

7 Reasons Why New Hires Quit Before 90 Days

The New Year is almost here and many organisations already have new recruits planning to resume in January but have they even thought why their previous employees keep leaving?

In the last few months, there has been a steady rise in attrition rates in organisations and this would be unending if some of these are not looked into:

� Hostile work environment:
It exists when the harassment is so pervasive that it alters your ability to do your job. The harasser can be a supervisor, coworker, or even a client. The victim does not have to be the person harassed but can be anyone affected by the offensive conduct.

� Unavailable work tools:
When new hires have to practically start to look for space, funds, resources and other tools to get the job done. This often demotivates.

� Power tussling among colleagues:
Not pre-informing your existing staff about new hires especially if they see someone within that can do the job very well. This leads to resentment towards new hires which distort progressive changes introduced by them.

� Changing job role or no clear JD:
When Job Offer says something else from what is obtainable. Adding different unrelated responsibilities to make it main job function for an entirely different job role. Sometimes, this is even done within 90 days of resumption of a new hire.

� Unending working hours
Inconsistent closing hours wear out employees easily and expecting your employees not to leave before you even after working hours have elapsed is quite unreasonable.

�Micromanaging employees:
Even after employing them to do the job, breathing down their necks will make them feel uncomfortable, it takes a while for new employees to understand your culture and processes, and there should be onboarding for approximately 2-3 months before they can do the magic.

Not everyone is a type A personality.
Type A personality- associated with high achievement, competitiveness, impatience, motivated to achieve results, goals driven, proactiveness and time consciousness.

Type B personality - associated with less stress-prone, patient, relaxed and lacks time-urgency. They can work steadily and may enjoy achievement, although they have a greater tendency to disregard physical or mental stress.

� Complaining about them behind their back: You unreasonably set high expectations for them and rather than set up meeting to discuss #performance , you begin to complain to your existing employees about it being a mis-hire.

Learn to nurture people and let employees grow into these roles progressively. Rome wasn’t built in a day.

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