Why are Rental Housing Employees Quitting? Ineffective Onboarding

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Note: This is one in a five-article series spotlighting the five top risks to employee engagement and retention cited in Swift Bunny’s 2023 Employee Engagement Risk Report. Employee turnover is a persistent top challenge for rental housing operators, and the labor shortage has made staffing even more difficult than usual. A focus on driving down […]

Why are Rental Housing Employees Quitting? Many Say the Unreasonable Workload

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Note: This is one in a five-article series spotlighting the five top risks to employee engagement and retention cited in Swift Bunny’s 2023 Employee Engagement Risk Report. Employee turnover is a persistent top challenge for rental housing operators, and the labor shortage has made staffing even more difficult than usual. A focus on driving down […]

Why are Rental Housing Employees Quitting? Lack of Professional Development

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Note: This is one in a five-article series spotlighting the five top risks to employee engagement and retention cited in Swift Bunny’s 2023 Employee Engagement Risk Report. Employee turnover is a persistent top challenge for rental housing operators, and the labor shortage has made staffing even more difficult than usual. A focus on driving down […]

Why are Rental Housing Employees Quitting? Communication Problems Frustrate Many

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Note: This is one in a five-article series spotlighting the five top risks to employee engagement and retention cited in Swift Bunny’s 2023 Employee Engagement Risk Report. Employee turnover is a persistent top challenge for rental housing operators, and the labor shortage has made staffing even more difficult than usual. A focus on driving down […]

Four Secrets for Fighting Employee Turnover

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Don’t Let your Top Multifamily Performers Slip Away Escalating employee turnover is one of the biggest challenges facing multifamily supervisors today. It can seem as if your best employees are always the first to depart. Why is that? Sure, it’s easy for the most qualified individuals to find other, more attractive opportunities; that makes perfect […]

How The Morgan Group Uses Employee Feedback to Engage and Retain their Multifamily Team Members

Our friend Brent Williams at Multifamily Insiders recently stated on their blog: “𝐎𝐮𝐫 𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐦 – our teams are burnt out, feeling unappreciated, and for many, the wild ride that is multifamily simply isn’t paying off anymore.” (Read the full article here on Multifamily Insiders)  Brent went in search of solutions to the […]

How Managers Can Drive Down Turnover

You’ve likely heard the saying, “people don’t quit companies. They quit bosses.” It turns out there’s a lot of truth to that adage. According to Gallup, perhaps the biggest reason for employee turnover may be that supervisors aren’t putting forth enough effort to get people to stay. 52% of exiting employees say their manager or […]

The Best End-of-Year Gift You Can Give Your Multifamily Team Members

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The holiday season is here, and if you supervise others, you may be thinking about how to acknowledge them with some sort of celebration or gift. It’s been a bit of a year, to say the least. Your team members are no doubt deserving of recognition. But what to give them? There’s one thing I […]

Community Managers are at Risk of Burnout. We Can’t Afford to Lose Them

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According to the Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM), more than 4 in 10 U.S. employees reported that they were burned out in January of 2020. Do you remember January of 2020? That’s what we’ve now come to call “before times”, as in, before COVID-19. So even when our lives hadn’t yet been upended by […]