Employee retention

A fintech that puts family-first policy into action

03/04/18

Promontory Interfinancial Network, a provider of bank products and services, goes to great lengths (sometimes literally) to retain its employees over the long term.

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To lure talent, banks get more creative, generous

10/30/17

Salaries and benefits are up, as banks work harder to recruit and retain staff. So are casual days, wellness programs and other perks.

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How a CEO fixed the culture — and low employee morale — at his bank

09/13/17

A few years after co-founding Level One Bank, CEO Patrick Fehring decided to survey his employees. It turned into a wake-up call.

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Ally’s how-to guide on keeping millennial employees

09/11/17

The Detroit lender developed rotational training programs in auto finance, accounting and technology to help attract and keep promising employees, especially millennials, who had a tendency to bolt.

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How we pick the Best Banks to Work For

08/28/17

The Best Banks to Work For study is a collaboration between American Banker and the Best Companies Group, which conducts extensive employee surveys and reviews employer reports on benefits and policies.

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This bank learned the hard way to ramp up M&A-related retention efforts

07/25/17

Union Bankshares in Virginia lost several key lending officers after it bought StellarOne. Management as a result has made changes to minimize employee flight from its latest M&A target, Xenith Bankshares.

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Mom's not-so-little helper; 'values' in hiring

05/25/17

Teresa Tanner designed a unique program to help keep new moms from leaving Fifth Third. Monica Coles of Wells Fargo has a surprising perspective on diversity initiatives. Plus, Abby Johnson talks up bitcoin.

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What Fifth Third is doing to retain moms

05/24/17

New mothers were bailing out from the Cincinnati bank at twice the rate of other women employees, so it decided to offer a maternity concierge service that would help them with stressful chores.

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At JPMorgan, your performance review is now. And now. And ...

03/09/17

JPMorgan Chase is shaking up the way it evaluates employees, introducing a mobile tool that lets workers across the sprawling organization send or receive instant critiques of their colleagues.

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Wells' new pay plan is 'not that radical' – and that's good news for rivals

01/17/17

The embattled company's new incentive pay plan appears to resemble those used by other banks, which suggests that regulators are unlikely to demand big changes throughout the sector.

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