3 Employee Retention Techniques For The Deskless Workforce

By Kristen Wells

Deskless workers comprise anywhere from 72-80% of the entire workforce. They include field service technicians, hotel staff, utility workers, flight crews, warehouse staff, manufacturing plant engineers—the list goes on. Retention rates in these industries are notoriously low due to the challenging, stressful, and isolating nature of these jobs. Improving employee retention is always top of mind for leaders, but when it comes to the deskless workforce, it has to be done a little differently.

The following three employee retention techniques will help you better connect and support deskless teams so that they’ll want to stick around.