Retention Quotations

We have closely monitored the ups and downs of recruiting and retention trends for many years and have been quick to sound the alarm when challenges came into view.

Anticipation of movement, through muscular innervation and memory, by its retention of nerve impulse images, extend the present to the limit of a second or so.

Even though it's not a widely appreciated yarn, any suit made from a mohair-wool blend travels exceptionally well. The retention of the mohair fiber bounces back and minimizes any creasing that occurs whilst traveling. Mohair also breathes really well, keeping you cool or warm, and is therefore extremely versatile.

I admit that Post-it note sheets that adhere to virtually any surface are now my substitute of choice for retention.

Until we get the base pay for all teachers up, we are going to have these recruiting and retention problems. It's like putting a fancy porch on your house when your floor is sagging.

Work with your business process and legal advisers to develop a records management policy, and from that, develop procedures and a retention schedule (after performing an inventory of existing records) and assessing who creates, receives and manages what information for your organization.

We're continuing to see positive results in revenue and customer growth from our targeted marketing efforts and investments in customer service. Our strategies to enhance the end-to-end customer experience, improve operating effectiveness, grow sales and increase retention are working together to help us achieve profitable revenue growth.

Lexus won by a wide margin, achieving a rating of 88 versus 83 for Porsche and 82 for Acura. Lexus customers rated it the most worthy of a price premium by a five-point margin. Lexus also posted the highest ratings in the critical Customer Retention and Customer Referral indices.

Some companies would rather not implement a system until they have their entire records management strategy identified, so they can apply different retention periods to different things, like a message from finance vs. a lunch invitation. Very few companies are prepared to roll out an enterprise-wide message categorization and retention program. Most companies realize that using an archive system doesn't lock them into anything, but it does give them the ability to see what they have.

Much like the beef herd, heifer retention for herd replacements was up 4 percent and will allow an increase in the number of milk cows by nearly 1 percent this year.

Morale is high, and the best sign of that is that retention is going up and the recruiting problem that we faced last year has largely been repaired.

Retention is the lifeblood of what we do. 80% of our new growth comes from retention so we pay particular attention to going out and interacting with our manufacturers on an on-going basis so we know what their issues are and we can address these issues and help keep them profitable.

Retention is directly tied to recognition. People join companies, but they quit their managers.

On one side, they put a storm drain box that runs through the back to Reed Canal. Why did I end up with a retention pond?

Business managers and drivers alike will appreciate the easy entry and egress and roomy cab of the Sterling 360. While the drivers will benefit from a more comfortable and convenient work environment, managers will value the increased productivity and retention from reduced driver fatigue.

I feel that the next step is to move on to SGA president. I feel that I can impact a much larger audience of students as your next student body president by assisting in programming that I've done over the last two years and hopefully impacting the lives of students to keep retention on our campus.

Fund companies are increasingly looking at this as a retention tool. Perhaps its one way to keep your fund manager on board. I don't know if it's a full blown turning point, but companies realize it could be a brain drain so they're taking steps to stay competitive.

Job satisfaction levels have improved significantly compared to this time last year as employers step up employee retention efforts in the face of an increasingly competitive labor market. However, nearly three-in-ten workers still say they plan to look for new opportunities in 2006 and 41 percent plan to leave the companies by the end of 2007.

It includes provision for the retention of the date and time for 'log in' and 'log off' an Internet email service, but most email programs connect to the email server every five minutes. The directive doesn't ask for the time mail is sent and received. It doesn't ask for the sender of received emails.

I think this really does help with retention because they feel like they are important and they don't just show up here their first day and try to wander around and find out where things are. The hope is if they attend orientation, they already have that feeling and they already feel like they're part of the community when they start classes.

IT is one of the top areas hiring managers say they will be recruiting for in 2006. With the labor market becoming more competitive, hiring managers may need to rethink their recruitment and retention strategies.

Our retention rate is above the goal. We want to keep as many of the people there as we can. We'd like to meet our cost-synergy targets in some other way.

Our strong momentum is being sustained in both the pre-pay and contract markets, and the customer retention programmes put in place at the start of the year are continuing to deliver improved churn metrics,

Texas' current retention policy has not demonstrated any evidence of improving student success. It has not materially improved our high school graduation rate, nor has retention resulted in improved academic proficiency of graduates.

I think other benefits are being utilized today more often than sabbaticals as retention tools. Instead of giving us six weeks off a year, employees are demanding more day to day flexibility, like the ability to telecommute, flex-time and child care or elder-care benefits. Those are the other areas where we are seeing real growth, while sabbaticals are sort of going up and down.

It did all that while maintaining access to data and keeping data retention policies compliant by country.

Members of the Palm Beach County dive team discovered the body of Jared McGuire in the retention pond just north of the residence. A positive ID has been made by our investigators working the case.

We were very excited to be back on the field. The players were upbeat and very positive. The coaches are doing a great job. The retention of the players, as well as their conditioning, was actually pretty good.

We need to hook them on hunting at an early age, so they become appreciative of the hunting tradition. This will also increase hunter retention and ensure the future of conservation remains strong.

Today's youth are tomorrow's conservationists and if we don't instill in them a love of the outdoors at an early age, the hunting and conservation tradition could be lost. We need to hook them on hunting at an early age, so they become appreciative of the hunting tradition. This will also increase hunter retention and ensure the future of conservation remains strong.

We need to use some of these lower areas as flood retention areas, as places to collect the hazards.

Unfortunately, school systems are more often concerned with how their retention numbers look instead of whether these children can read well enough to succeed. Consequently, schools have found loopholes in the law, and legislators need to plug those holes. Nothing does a child a greater disservice than promoting him when he is lacking the basic skills to succeed.

We would hope that it would increase the number of transfers who complete baccalaureate degrees. That is always our goal to increase our retention and graduation rates and to make education more seamless.

The crisis is not over. The only thing that has happened is some moderation in the rate of increase of our premiums, but we still have issues in terms of recruitment and retention of physicians.

The conversion of the existing plant will provide for the retention of a skilled and experienced group of employees, thereby avoiding a plant closing and the loss of well-paid jobs in the Columbus community,

What we think the numbers are saying is that the frequency and retention of existing customers is not anywhere near where it needs to be for the model to work in our opinion.

This retention wasn't about making a 'politically correct' or 'politically acceptable' choice. It was about getting the right person for the job. Firm affiliation is irrelevant to finding the right person.

We had 32 sets of books running in one instance of Oracle several years ago. You can imagine how fast data was collecting -- and we do business in 29 different countries, each with its own retention requirements. We turned to archiving to get our database down to a useable size.

With experienced IT workers retiring and too few highly skilled workers to replace them, training and retention efforts will be critical. Businesses need to move immediately to search for and screen qualified applicants, and technology professionals with the right skill sets will be well positioned to capitalize on emerging opportunities.

While there has been an increased retention of funds within the region, we expect the flow of capital out of the region to accelerate in 2006, partly due to the over-priced nature of regional markets and partly due to an increased desire to use the petrodollars to make strategic acquisitions.

We wanted to test whether quizzes encouraged greater memory retention over review. We found that the groups had no statistical differences, meaning that quizzes were not a harmful activity. That's an interesting finding for this pilot study. It suggests that the idea of giving quizzes regularly is worth further exploration and that quizzes might be better used as an effective teaching tool.

This type of data retention would never fly in the United States because of privacy concerns and because the industry would not allow it. Even in the U.S., the Department of Homeland Security has not been able to mandate this type of retention measure.

What is represented related to the increased compliance requirements for records retention comes across as scare tactics, and it's generally being provided by those who would profit the most from organizations 'keeping everything forever,' which is a prescription for disaster for any business. While it is correct to state that more information needs to be retained than in the past and for longer periods of time, the retention of data, information and records beyond required time periods is a risk-laden practice.

With immediate effect, therefore, the retention period has been reduced from the current 45 days to 30 days (one full month).

We are very confident in Patrick's ability to step in and lead our job creation and retention efforts. His past experience combined with his relationships both in the community and within our targeted industries will keep our momentum going forward.

As it does so, the group will continue to adapt its marketing strategy and infrastructure to provide greater focus on customer retention and player value.

At the forum, we will discuss GAO's recommendations, listen to your thoughts and concerns and discuss ways to improve this valuable recruitment and retention tool.

Establishing LEA Europe and LEA Asia Pacific enables us to deliver a unique advantage -- best-in-class strategies and processes, faster new service development cycles, improved recruiting and retention and accelerated profitability -- to accounting firms around the world.

The roadways have been graded and the retention pond for the lake has been dug, although there are embankments to prevent it from filling with runoff water.

These bonuses, and the minimum 'save' rates accompanying them, had the effect of employees not honoring cancellations, or otherwise making cancellation unduly difficult for consumers, ... This agreement helps ensure that AOL will strive to keep its customers through quality service, not stealth retention programs.

The shortage of IT workers has changed the nature of the position of HR (human resources) director, for one, because employee retention has become almost an overwhelming issue, ... Companies might have seen a 10-to-12 percent turnover rate a few years ago, if lucky -- the turnover rate is now more like 20 percent plus. People are stealing employees from one another left and right, and employee loyalty, frankly, runs only as deep as what the company can offer.

The spotlight is often on the talent acquisition, development, and retention challenges faced by large organizations. But small and mid-sized businesses also confront many human capital management issues. We're pleased Sage Software, a company focused on HR and payroll solutions for small and mid-sized businesses and organizations, will fund this track aimed at addressing the specialized and unique talent management needs of these organizations.

Technology professionals with the most desirable skill sets are beginning to receive multiple offers. Individuals who may have been dissatisfied in their positions in recent years also are starting to pursue other opportunities, making employee retention a growing concern for companies.

Our excellent underwriting results for the quarter reflect our discipline and commitment to profitable growth. The quality of our products, technology and people has helped us deepen and expand our agency relationships across the country. Small commercial and personal lines have been successful at keeping customer retention high and generating new business.

Our annual customer retention rate is approximately 90 percent, and we believe our training program has a lot to do with such a high percentage. In our field, your performance is the only thing that matters to your client. Our program focuses on training our employees to become top-notch security officers while also preparing them for roles in management. In the long term, we train our officers because it is essential to servicing our clients, to retaining the best employees and to building a culture of excellence.

Acquisition and retention lessons from babies world: "Crying gets their attention" and "Smiling keeps them there".

Once we lost scholarships our staff had to make some difficult personnel decisions. As a result, we have lost retention points because student-athletes have transferred when we were not able to renew their aid.

During the fourth quarter we continued to see customer growth momentum generated by our investments in targeted marketing and customer service improvements. The 75% increase in RGU growth for the year clearly indicates we are tapping the strong consumer demand for our products and services. Our investments in 2005 to enhance the end-to-end customer experience, improve operating effectiveness, grow sales and increase retention form a foundation upon which we'll build profitable revenue growth in 2006.

Companies keep telling me that retention of high-performance employees is a major motivation for their involvement. The younger generation of managers use socially responsible activities as an internal motivational tool.

Companies and government agencies must contend with a number of industry-specific email retention laws and regulations, such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, HIPAA and SEC Rule 17a-4, which means a system that works for one may not work for others. We want to give our customers a number of options to choose from, rather than forcing one bundled solution on all of them.

A service provider's business is only as strong as its ability to manage its network and services delivery. In today's competitive environment, proper resource and service management is an absolute must. By partnering with NetCracker, Covad has taken an innovative and essential approach that allows it to realize the true value of its network, prevent revenue leakage, and increase customer satisfaction and retention rates. We are thrilled to be a part of Covad's market-leading strategy.

This grant ... will allow us to continue our base retention efforts, remaining strong in our support of Stratton Air National Guard Base, home to the only ski-equipped cargo planes in the United States Air Force.

This agreement helps ensure that AOL will strive to keep its customers through quality service, not stealth retention programs,

They're working on what we call a retention pond so at the bottom of the 28-acre watershed will be the pond. It'll be the final practice on our watershed that'll help with filtering out the pollutants,

A lot of the guys don't want to commit to the whole program. Some of them don't even want to have to lift (weights). But we're doing a better job of recruiting and retention on the team is better as well.

There were more manual steps to override previous retention periods, now it's simpler.

It's a retention rate, not just an academic rate. The spirit of this rule is right on. We're always pushing to get better. I don't think it's fair, but I am very confident we will be over 925 for the 2005-06 school year.

Ford provides compensation packages that are competitive with the industry. This board-approved retention payment reflects this commitment.

For example, they drop your major. (Or) you have significant health problems. The retention piece is a part of the APR, in part, to prevent runoffs. And if you have legitimate reasons that you can say 'this isn't a runoff issue' ... we ought to figure out a way to adjust the APR.

It's clear the Intelligence Community must do more to make diversity in hiring and retention of minority employees a high priority for all agencies.

Not enough attention is paid to the retention issue.

They couldn't afford to maintain two factories doing the same thing. It was a difficult thing . . . (but) employees were very appreciative because we gave them a fair severance or retention package to get them to stay with the company until the end.

The use of data correlation and retention is very problematic. There are many questions about how e-mails or Internet searches can be used in a subpoena situation, and there are doors opening here that are of significant concern.

They will no longer be able to rely on a rapidly growing group of younger workers in the future. Increased employment of older workers seems like a natural solution, but employers will have to change their hiring and retention policies if they want to attract these highly productive older individuals.

The retention percentage is in line with expectations, and we're happy that hundreds of talented people have decided to stay with Nissan as we continue to profitably grow our business.

At times in the game we played with great confidence. In the last three games under Walter the commitment and the organisation and defensive aspects have improved greatly but the one thing which maybe hasn't been too great has been our retention of the ball. I felt that was much better against Austria.

That might be a model for some kind of data retention issue. It might be one that would say the government, instead of holding the data itself, will allow it to remain in the private sector, provided the private sector retains it for a period of time so we can ping against it.

I'm pleased their retention rate is so high and they're not making any move to upset the economic position within the town. I'm happy that they're not making a move to close the operation.

In addition to trying to offer competitive wages, companies in the area try to employ retention strategies designed to invest in the career paths of the employees,

It has the promise of better recruitment and retention for dentists that we train in the state -- to stay out in these areas where they are so much needed.

Clearly, the retention policy suffers design flaws. If retention's purpose is to produce more academically able students, the loophole in state policy that allows large numbers of failing students to bypass retention needs to be closed. What good is retention if it doesn't help educational outcomes?

Housing is a huge retention issue for the military.

By doing this, we created a tremendous increase in the amount of technical people in the company than we previously had. Our retention rate of those people has also been extremely good. We've only lost two of them. Although it cost about $10,000 per employee, it's been extremely successful.

Total non-retention has kept my education from being a burden to me.

I don't think this means that Europe is moving forward on creating a data retention law any time soon. I think the chances are still slim at best. This latest plan only further muddies the issue.

Gov. Rell is dead serious when she said job creation and job retention has been at the top of her priority list since she took office. And the 28,000 jobs that the state has added in the last two years reflects that attention and effort.

The key issue is what data ISPs will be forced to either retain or preserve, and cost of recovery for that. Without an adequate cost recovery for both retention and retrieval of the information, ISPs will be open to open-ended requirements.

The idea of a work/life balance is much more important to younger workers than it ever was with baby boomers. Companies are looking at retention issues.

The gift is a testament to the common interest of the Moore School of Business, the university and Wachovia to increase student diversity through innovative recruiting and retention programs.

The current expansion is expected to extend until around 2010, with the largest beef production on this cycle coming in 2010 to 2012. This likely means several more years of favorable prices as cow slaughter remains low and heifer retention high.

The first instinct of power is the retention of power, and under a Constitution that requires periodic elections, that is best achieved by the suppression of election-time speech,

I don't particularly gain water; I don't have water retention.

When you're breastfeeding a child, you don't have the same retention as you do when you're not.

In hell there is no retention.