Retaining Library Employees: What Works?
Christi Taggart-Osterday (costerday@sarahlawrence.edu)
Since the COVID-19 pandemic, higher education has been grappling with the “Great Resignation” as employees leave jobs at higher rates than the industry has seen in years.1 Although turnover rates seem to be slowing, they still exceed pre-pandemic levels, with 33% of employees indicating they would be looking for new jobs within the next year.2 Employees that do stay may suffer from the “Great Detachment,” or generalized feelings of burnout.3 From search expenses and productivity decreases to los