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10 reasons your best employees are quitting

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There's a good chance it's mostly your fault.  Flickr/Erin Kelly

You hired a great team of people, but now they're dropping like flies.

One by one they are giving their two weeks' notice, and you don't know how to stop it.

The days of lifetime employment at a single company are long gone, but there are still a few things you can do to improve retention.

San Francisco-based HR firm Achievers came up with 10 of the most common ways managers alienate their employees — and how you can avoid them.

Below, we've featured Achievers' presentation "How to Lose an Employee in 10 Days," with their permission.

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Richard wrote for Business Insider's Strategy vertical, where he oversaw the Better Capitalism series. He was also the host of Business Insider's podcast "This Is Success." At Business Insider, he investigated Dan Gilbert's multibillion-dollar project in Detroit, analyzed the highly unusual management cultures at Bridgewater and Zappos, and examined Wall Street's love of Transcendental Meditation. In 2016 he helped launch Business Insider Italia in Milan. He joined Business Insider in 2013, and is an alumnus of Boston College and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He left the company in 2020 to become editorial director at Just Capital.