Spotlight on Rethinking Retention: Workplace Design That Encourages Women to Stay
Spotlight on Rethinking Retention: Workplace Design That Encourages Women to StayWomen’s retention is one of the most serious—and most solvable—workforce challenges in Canada. This research, synthesized from a review of academic articles, practitioner reports, and credible grey literature, considers the organizational, structural, and cultural conditions that drive women’s decisions to remain, disengage, or exit the workforce.
What specific factors contribute to women’s attrition or sustained workforce engagement? How do work design, flexibility, care responsibilities, bias, belonging, and leadership conditions influence women’s retention, and which have the strongest impact? What organizational practices and designs most effectively strengthen participation and performance for women?
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Key take-aways
Focusing on women’s retention
What works: Redesigning work to retain talent
Organizational work design audit
Appendix A: Methodology
Appendix B: Bibliography
