What makes people want to stay?
Employee retention is often treated as an outcome to manage. But whether people stay, engage, and perform is shaped by what they experience every day.
The LWC STAY Framework examines four interconnected conditions that influence the employee experience:
Safety & Trust.
Trustworthy Leadership.
Alignment & Autonomy.
Your Growth & Experience.
People rarely leave for just one reason.
Turnover may be the outcome leaders see, but the conditions influencing it often develop much earlier.
Employees are continually forming impressions about whether they can trust the organization, whether their leaders are credible, whether they can effectively do their work, and whether they have a future there.
The STAY Framework helps LWC examine these conditions together rather than treating retention as an isolated HR metric.
Retention is an outcome.
The employee experience is built long before someone decides to leave.