Because Italian companies do not know how to retain employees: low salaries and incapable managers, we are the worst in Europe

The European primacy goes to Italy by inability to retain talents. A trophy certified by the investigation European Workforce Study 2025 Of Great Place to Workaccording to which 40% of workers on a national scale said they want to change employment against a European average of 31% and with the peak between the younger groups, between 18 and 24 years. Fund salaries and poor formation are among the main causes of employees’ exemption, but above all the inability of the leaders weighs, who according to Great Place to Work do not know how to listen to employees.

The study

Conducted on 25 thousand collaborators from 19 countries of Europethe investigation starts from a question: « Will you look for a new job this year? » If in Denmark, Switzerland, Norway, the Netherlands, Germany and Austria most of the interviewees are happy with the place where they are located and are not looking for more, in Italy 4 out of 10 employees would like to change employment, 21% are thinking about it and 39% are fine. The desire to abandon the place is more alive in young people (which according to some experts, they go away above all if they are not followed in the insertion phases). To escape it is the poor ability by the entrepreneurs of loyalize themtransversal aspect to countries and that corresponds to 36% of the interviewees between 25 and 34 years old. « In Italy there is a more serious leadership problem than in the rest of the EU – explains the president of Great Place to Work Italy Beniamino Bedusa -. Manager are not lacking skills but their relationship with employees does not work, they cannot enhance them ». According to the group data, in our country only 44% of employees trust their heads against a 64% estimate rate in northern Europe. « Entrepreneurs have not understood that they must take care of the collaborators, avoid controlling them continuously, giving them confidence and making them understand how the objectives are achieved ».

Quiet quetting

The abandonment rate drops to 30% in the 35-44 -year band and the share thinks with increasing age, reaching 25% among the over 55. « To remain in the same company, however, it is almost never an unconditional choice -explains Bedusa -, most of the time it is influenced by the lack of alternatives, especially in the territories with less employment ». The consequence is the quiet quettingthe phenomenon for which dissatisfied employees remain in place despite being unhappy, reducing their commitment in the tasks they carry out. « This occurs more in Italy because there is no turnover but having quiet quietrs in the company feeds negativity. »

The problems to be solved

There Generation Z It is the one that is the lack of alignment between the top and the rest of the company. « THE Manager no longer understand young peopletheir values, and cannot adapt to concepts such as the protection of psychological well -being at work or balance with life ». According to the survey of Great Place to Work Italy are eight The points on which companies have to work to attract workers. In addition to guaranteeing one balance with private lifethe wage conditions must be improved: «lo salary It is important because it is a concrete recognition to the value of one’s professionalism, « explains Bedusa. To prevent abandonment then it would be necessary strengthen relationships through interviews and feedback, Remove organizational barriers and have the Possibility to grow within companies with training e professional opportunities. Then there is it Smart Workingstarts from flexibility that Great Place to Work recommends not to deny.