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Staff Turnover Rockets

April 28 2005Management consultancy firms are being torn apart by surging levels of staff turnover according to new research from TopConsultantcom httpwwwtopconsultantcom Polling consultants from the leading firms the survey finds that staff retention is likely to deteriorate further this year as the global consulting recovery presents consultants with a wider choice of career opportunities encouraging them to leave their existing employer in favour of a new challenge
The full report to be published in the May edition of Consulting Times httpwwwconsultingtimescom reveals the strategies that consulting firms have been putting in place to address the retention challenge together with consultants views on what their firm could do to make them want to stay
Staff turnover in last 12 months
200 UK Ireland
186 Mainland Europe
125 US
107 India
In terms of key statistics the survey highlights that staff turnover rates have already reached critical levels in the UK Ireland market with a median rate of 20 across the 50 firms surveyed A significant number of UK firms were in the 2530 range reinforcing the recruitment boom that has gripped the market for the last 9 months The US markets staff turnover figures are some way below reflecting the early stages of the consulting recovery there whilst the benefits of an offshore presence in India seem to be further reinforced by the low staff turnover rates being achieved
Worryingly for firms the report shows that current retention problems may prove to be just the tip of the iceberg Only 235 of consultants polled believe their firm has taken any steps in the last year to improve staff retention rates whilst 925 of consultants believe employers will find it harder to retain staff in the coming year in the face of a rebounding market This huge imbalance means that for most firms staff turnover is likely to increase over the next 12 months
Consulting firms can take some comfort from the fact that many of the things consultants stated would make them stay with their existing firm actually cost very little to implement Marketbeating salaries were not consultants main consideration as the survey will reveal in a weeks time
Survey data was collected in Q2 2005 and includes contributions from consultants at global brands such as ATKearney Accenture Altran Ariba Atos Consulting BearingPoint Booz Allen Hamilton BCG Boxwood BT Capgemini CSC Deloitte Ernst Young Gartner Hedra Hewlett Packard IBM Business Consulting LEK LogicaCMG mapartners Marakon OCC Strategy Consultants PA Consulting PKF Proudfoot Consulting PRTM PwC Roland Berger Strategy Consultants RSM Robson Rhodes SAIC and Unisys
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