TalentDrain is committed to ensuring its staff, consultants and clients stay informed with the latest news, articles, papers and books that relate to retention and staff engagement. By sharing our knowledge with you we hope to heighten awareness and inform all those interested in our products the background to why we developed the tools to measure retention and engagement and why we will be constantly looking to develop our portfolio based on current research and findings.

By following the links below you can read news, articles and book reviews all relevant to staff retention:

News
In this section we provide synopses of the latest news articles from leading Australian newspapers and magazines relating to staff attraction and retention. Many have relevant statistics on the latest turnover figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics as well as demographic forecasts. There are also comments from specific companies about the ways in which they are tackling turnover and their current strategies in this area.

Articles
This section includes peer reviewed journal articles that are relevant to the areas TalentDrain specialises in. There is a growing body of academic research on retention globally and TalentDrain will add to its knowledge library as and when articles are published. We will also include in this area any articles written for TalentDrain by other experts in the field.

Recommended Reading
We have concentrated here on books that are specifically relevant to the Australian market. We will review books in this section to inform on current literature on retention. We will also review material that is of interest on related topics, for example, employer branding and generational changes that may affect staff retention. There are also plenty of other books to read on this subject, many written by US authors, and available through the SHRM bookstore.

Links
There are also many resources available on the web that we find useful. We have provided a few that might be of interest to explore.

We hope you find the material useful. We would be more than happy for anyone to recommend further news item, articles or books that you think would be of interest to other HR or management professionals with an interest in retention as an issue. If so, please write to us at info@talentdrain.com.au.