MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Retaining Today's Young Managers

It was 20 years ago that the movie “Jerry Maguire” created a mantra for our time: “Show me the money!” Today’s young professionals most definitely absorbed that message, but money’s not the only way to stop them from packing it in.

It’s tax season, and the U.S. Internal Revenue Service expects that more than 153 million federal individual tax returns will be filed this year. That’s a lot of people looking at their annual wage statements and assessing — either at a glance, or with some amount of angst — whether the upsides and downsides of their workplace balance out, given their top-line compensation and take-home pay.

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Leslie Brokaw is a contributing editor to MIT Sloan Management Review.

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