According to the recent fifth annual MetLife study of Employee Benefits Trends, employee retention is the top benefits objective among employers, edging out controlling costs for the first time since the study's inception. Employee retention was identified as the most important benefits objective by more than half (55%) of employers overall. Certain industries such as retail (62%) and services (59%) were even more likely to place importance on workplace benefits as a retention strategy. In 2003, less than half of employers acknowledged employee retention as a primary goal. In an environment where 40% of (0 comments)