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“A toxic corporate culture, for example, is 10.4 times more powerful than compensation in predicting a company’s attrition rate compared with its industry.”

Donald Sull, Charles Sull, and Ben Zweigsloanreview.mit.edu ↗

Pay ranked 16th as a predictor of people leaving. Toxic culture ranked first. Companies keep throwing retention bonuses at a problem caused by the managers handing them out. A raise does not make a bad boss tolerable.