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By Jacqueline Durett
In a
competitive
market, firms
pull out all
the stops to
retain employees
“Regardless of what we preach, it’s business first,
then client issues, then employee concerns.”
“Long hours, lack of recognition, single-mindedness.”
“[The firm] is extremely cheap. It is not uncommon
for people to fly to China or India economy class, and
[the firm] offers no perks that one would normally
associate with a consulting firm. In essence you are
an expendable resource that is being squeezed to
pad the partners’ bank account.”
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THESE QUOTES FROM OUR 2007 Best Firms to
Work For survey sum up one of the primary obstacles
to retention: employee dissatisfaction. And from the
looks at these quotes, and plenty others that were in our
annual Best Firms report, there’s a lot of work to be
done if firms want to keep what they’ve got in an ever-tightening talent market. Companies can put all the effort into human capital objectives they want—in fact, according to a McKinsey & Company
survey released in December, 46 percent of business executives re-
