Solutions · People & Culture
Retention
Keep good people from quietly drifting away.
Why retention
Keeping a good worker beats finding a new one.
People rarely leave over one thing. They leave when they stop feeling connected.
In the trades, crews are spread across jobsites, shifts and time zones. Bench keeps them connected to the company with engagement, recognition and communication that reaches the field, and a senior team that runs the program for you.
The data
Engagement is a retention strategy.
21%
higher profitability in business units with highly engaged teams.
Source: Gallup, State of the Global Workplace
18%
lower turnover in high-turnover organizations when teams are highly engaged.
Source: Gallup Q12 Meta-Analysis
33%
of an employee's annual salary is the typical cost of replacing them.
Source: Work Institute Retention Report
3.2 yrs
median tenure for workers in U.S. construction, well below the all-industry median.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
What keeps people
Six drivers of retention, built into Bench.
Engagement
Pulse surveys, news and two-way communication on every worker's phone, so people feel heard, not forgotten.
Recognition
Anniversaries, birthdays, safety leadership and peer shout-outs, delivered on time, every time.
Onboarding
A clear first 90 days with check-ins, training and the right people introduced early.
Growth paths
Training, certifications and career steps that show every worker where they can go next.
Listening
Flag risk early. See which crews, branches or roles are losing energy before people give notice.
Leadership insight
One dashboard ties engagement, recognition and turnover together so leaders can act on facts.
One platform
Everything in one place. Everyone in the loop.
When engagement, recognition, training and communication live in separate tools, workers tune out and leaders fly blind. Bench puts it all on one platform, so every worker stays connected and you can see retention risk before it becomes a resignation.
One login, one story
Workers get one app for news, praise, training and surveys, instead of five tools they ignore.
Nothing slips through
Every milestone, survey and follow-up runs on a schedule, so no one is overlooked.
Data you can connect
See how engagement and recognition line up with who stays and who leaves.
Turn every interaction into action.
Tell us where the backlog, the pipeline or the crew is thin. We'll show you the plan.