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What Gets Your Best Employees to Stay

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To win the talent wars, companies need a systematic framework for understanding and managing the factors that keep employees from leaving.

Lauren Aydinliyim and Deepak SomayaAugust 18, 2026Reading Time: 14 min

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The most valuable employees are also the most likely to leave — and companies too often respond with one-off counteroffers or bidding wars ...

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A recent battle for AI talent illustrates how difficult it is for companies to retain key employees. In 2025, OpenAI’s stock-based compensation averaged roughly $1.5 million per employee— unprecedented for a pre-IPO company — yet OpenAI still experienced high-profile defections. Rivals such as Meta were reportedly extending offers in the hundreds of millions of dollars for top AI talent, prompting OpenAI to issue multimillion-dollar one-time retention bonuses and to relax equity vesting requirements twice in a single...

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