Trust, open communications, and good relations with supervisors are critical to employee satisfaction. When supervisors show genuine interest in their employees, they help to build that all-important trust factor. The more employees establish relationships with their supervisors, the more likely they are to remain with the company.

Other factors, such as continuous learning, recognition, fairness, and being part of a winning team and company, are also important in retaining employees. Employees need to feel like they’re constantly learning and growing.

Michael Dickens, CEO of BuildIQ, agrees that opportunities for learning are a key part of a happy employee infrastructure. BuildIQ offers online training to production homebuilders. “An employer’s investment in training their employees is recognized as an investment in the development of their individual careers. Making this training opportunity both easy and effective for the employees benefits the company by having a more knowledgeable, more productive workforce,” says Dickens. Keeping employees happy typically minimizes turnover in a company, saving a builder a lot of grief, as well as a lot of money.