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title: "Senior Care Perspectives: Retaining Today’s Workforce"
description: Providers can focus  on employee engagement by placing priority on company culture, providing regular feedback and staff scheduling software.
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# [Senior Care Perspectives: Retaining Today’s Workforce](https://www.onshift.com/resources/blog/senior-care-perspectives-retaining-todays-workforce)

 Written by [Mike Pumphrey](https://www.onshift.com/resources/blog/author/mike-pumphrey) | Jul 11, 2017 9:22:25 PM

Millennials now comprise the largest share of the overall workforce. This, paired with historically low unemployment rates, and wage increases in competing industries such as retail and hospitality, has sparked a change in senior care—one that requires a new focus on [employee engagement and retention](https://onshift.com/engage). As Ryan Novaczyk, president and CFO, New Perspective Senior Living notes, “It’s a change that presents both a challenge and an opportunity.”

Simply providing a paycheck and job description is not enough to retain today’s workforce, as employees refuse to settle for the status quo. Providers must up their engagement and retention strategies to compete.

In many cases, this means placing a high priority on things like redefining their company culture, providing regular, individualized feedback and utilizing modern technologies, such as [staff scheduling software](https://onshift.com/staff-scheduling-software) to help make employees’ lives easier.

Ready to see what some organizations are already doing to improve their retention strategy? Download our free whitepaper, ***[Senior Care Perspectives: Retaining Today’s Workforce](https://www3.onshift.com/retaining-the-senior-care-workforce)***. 

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