DENVER – BMW's South Carolina manufacturing plant, which opened 20 years ago, has assembled an array of workforce wellness, screening and other programs aimed not just at recruiting new talent but also retaining older workers.
The result? A retention rate of 95 percent, an envious statistic at a time when employees nowadays will jump ship, it seems, just because they can, especially as the economy recovers.
Jerry Johnson, the risk manager at the BMW plant in Spartanburg, S.C., highlighted his company's retention tactics at a session Tuesday on the graying of the nation's workforce at the Risk & Insurance Management Society conference.
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