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 # Navigating the Great Resignation

 

##### Leveraging Skills-Based Volunteer Programs to Boost Employee Engagement and Retention in a Time of Rapid Turnover

 

 

 Aug 19, 2021 5:00 PM ET

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In what’s being dubbed the "Great Resignation,” around [4 million](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/jolts.nr0.htm) people quit their jobs in June alone and [52 percent](https://www.achievers.com/de/resources/white-papers/workforce-institute-2021-engagement-and-retention-report/) of employed workers plan to actively job hunt this year. A year and a half of living through COVID-19 has left many professionals burned out and in pursuit of more fulfilling opportunities or employers that better align with their values.  
  
Whether or not your company or organization is feeling the turnover pressure, skills-based volunteering can be a powerful element of your employee engagement and retention strategy. Providing talent development opportunities, team building, and a much desired sense of purpose at work, skills-based volunteering addresses many of the root causes for today's high rates of attrition.

**[Keep reading on the Common Impact blog.](https://commonimpact.org/blog/post/navigating-the-great-resignation)**



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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