Employee Turnover Persisting—The Promise of a Better Job No Longer Enough

Companies look to hire new employees at a job fair in south Florida. Joe Raedle/Getty Images

In the not-so-distant past, employee turnover in almost any job market was handled by an employer simply getting other workers to replace the ones who had quit, resigned, been fired or laid off, or just taken a temporary leave of absence.

The same would be true now, except that there is currently too much employee turnover in too many job markets.