As stressful as finding a job can be for employees, finding the right employees — and more importantly, holding on to them — can be just as stressful for business owners and HR executives.

Benefits, perks and bonuses can all help keep good employees from looking elsewhere (or taking that recruiter’s call).

We reached out to retention experts in all four of Technical.ly’s primary markets — Philly, Delaware, Baltimore and D.C. — and all agree that the key to retention is to treat your employees like real people with real lives outside of the office. Shocking, right?

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