The 7 Hidden Reasons Employees Leave

Most exit interviews lie. Employees departing a job cite better pay or advancement, but Leigh Branham's research with the Saratoga Institute across more than 19,000 survey responses reveals a more troubling truth: people leave because of unmet expectations, poor management, lack of recognition, or a sense that the work stopped meaning something. The 7 Hidden Reasons Employees Leave is a diagnostic tool as much as a prescriptive guide, identifying the invisible push factors that drive talent out the door before leaders recognize the problem.

Neil Hellegers delivers the material with clean, authoritative narration that suits the research-grounded tone of Branham's approach. The structure, organized around the seven categories of exit drivers, makes the audio format particularly accessible, each chapter adding another dimension to what is essentially a portrait of organizational failure. At just over eight hours, this is a book that human resources professionals and people managers will find both validating and productively uncomfortable.