Reduce employee attrition

Keep your best people. Build your strongest teams.

See who's at risk before they leave. Employee retention analytics use AI to predict flight risk weeks in advance, surface what's driving attrition across your workforce, and connect engagement directly to customer outcomes—empowering your leaders with insights that protect talent and fuel business performance.

Smiling woman at a desk, with overlay dashboards showing an AI flight-risk prediction flagging Engineering as high and Marketing as medium, alongside top attrition drivers of growth opportunities at 81% and manager relationships at 74%.
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Retaining talent impacts budgets and culture alike

Every regrettable departure weakens your team's momentum.

Unwanted attrition doesn't announce itself. By the time someone resigns, you've already lost weeks of productivity, team morale has shifted, and replacement costs are mounting. Your strongest performers carry knowledge that takes months to rebuild. The real damage goes deeper. When voluntary turnover spikes, it signals systemic issues—burnout, misalignment, stalled growth—that spread across teams. Without workforce analytics that predict these patterns, you're always reacting. The companies winning the talent war aren't just measuring engagement. They're identifying at-risk employees early and equipping leaders with insights that retain top performers and build thriving culture.

$1T

Annual cost of voluntary employee turnover to U.S. businesses

1.5–2x

Cost of replacing a single employee, measured as a multiple of their annual salary

2 Years

How long it can take a new hire to match the productivity of the person they replaced

Turn retention risk into business strength

Predict who's at risk before they decide to leave

Predictive models continuously score engagement patterns, lifecycle signals, and workforce trends to surface flight risk before it becomes visible.

  • Surface at-risk employees through AI that detects early warning signals across engagement, performance, and lifecycle data

  • Prioritize intervention with flight risk scores that guide manager action toward your most critical talent

  • Connect attrition patterns to root causes—team dynamics, manager effectiveness, growth opportunities—so you solve systemic issues, not symptoms

Predictive flight risk card flagging West Coast senior engineers as high risk due to declining engagement, stalled mobility, and below-market compensation signals.

Understand what drives people to stay or go

Unify engagement surveys, exit feedback, and passive listening to map the complete employee experience. Connect satisfaction drivers directly to retention rates and business outcomes.

  • Capture the complete workforce voice through advanced surveying and passive digital listening across channels

  • Surface retention drivers and attrition drivers automatically: no manual coding or weeks of analysis required

  • Track how employee churn impacts customer experience and revenue, proving EX's direct connection to business performance

Dashboard showing 47.2K employee signals across four listening channels, with 62% from non-survey sources and top themes of manager effectiveness, work-life balance, and career development.

Empower managers with retention insights they'll actually use

Move beyond dashboards no one opens. AI surfaces actionable insights for each manager, showing exactly which team members need support and what actions reduce turnover risk.

  • Deliver manager-ready insights through intuitive interfaces designed for action, not analysis

  • Guide next steps with intelligent recommendations tailored to each team's specific retention challenges

  • Reduce time-cost of data analysis so managers focus on solving retention issues instead of finding them

A professional at a desk alongside a Qualtrics retention alert flagging a senior analyst as at risk and recommending a check-in on growth goals after no development conversation in four months, surfaced by AI as the highest impact action.

Measure what matters: retention rate, not just satisfaction

Connect employee experience investments to measurable retention outcomes. Prove ROI by tracking how engagement initiatives reduce unwanted turnover and protect your talent pipeline.

  • Track voluntary attrition and staff turnover trends across departments, roles, and demographics

  • Calculate turnover costs and prove EX program ROI with employee retention analytics that connect to business outcomes

  • Monitor regrettable attrition separately from total attrition—protect your highest performers and critical skills

Two Qualtrics cards showing an engagement initiative ROI summary—Manager Enablement Program driving 18% lower turnover and Pulse Survey Cadence driving 12% higher retention—alongside a retention rate of 87.4%, up 2.1 points versus last quarter.

17-point

Year-over-year NPS increase

9x

More likely to resolve customer issues in a single visit when employees feel recognized

24+

Data sources unified into one real-time intelligence platform

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2026 Global Employee Experience Trends

Employee Experience Trends 2026

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