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Best friends stick together in good and bad times

Findings from Gallup Research

📋 Introduction

Title: Turning Around Employee Turnover
Published at: Gallup.com
Authors : Jennifer Robinson

Why this matters

This gives us an added appreciation of how positive team culture can make the organization more resilient, and negative team culture can make the organization more vulnerable to tough times.

Findings

According to Gallup's research,

In a negative culture:

Best friends may leave together.
Teams with many best friends have 8% more turnover than those with few friends.

In a moderately to highly engaged atmosphere:

Best friends tend to stay together.
Turnover is 18% less per year for teams with many best friends, in comparison to those with few best friends.

💡Our recommendation

As a leader, this points to the importance of good functional teams with a good culture and team dynamics. Even if the company is going through challenging times, teams can whether the storm and make the organization more reslient if team dynamics are good and there are plenty of people in those teams who genuinly enjoy working together.

On the other hand, if you find teams where multiple team members leave together or very quickly after another, (and it's not the company's decison for them to go), then it might point towards greater cultural issues plaguing the team.