Employee engagement has been rated as the biggest issue HR teams in the legal sector are worried about.

Employers'' efforts to boost retention by increasing salaries was seen yesterday in the latest Report on Jobs published by the Recruitment and Employment Confederation and KPMG.

Over half of the UK''s workforce do not expect to receive a pay rise in 2010, a survey claims.

Employee engagement and helping staff to make progress in their jobs is what makes employees most enthusiastic about work, a study claims.

The chief executive of Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has bemoaned his firm''s failure at retention and has said he expects more of his top talent to leave.

The need for employee retention has come into focus with the news that resignations have grown in the year to February 2010, despite the economic downturn.

A survey by PricewaterhouseCoopers has shown that employee engagement and retention are firmly on the minds of UK chief executives.

Firms are to increasingly rely on pay freezes according to the latest monthly pay intelligence survey by IRS.

Recent figures form the Recruitment and Employment Confederation have shown that 94 per cent of employers expect staff retention to remain steady over the next year.

A workplace survey has shown that salary freezes are considered the most palatable cost-cutting measure for employers to introduce.