Forget perks, be compassionate to recruit high-performing staff

Some employers use extravagant perks to recruit the best candidates. Others resort to putting up online videos of their employees bragging about the possibilities within the company. Some hope that getting a new ping-pong table will do the trick. 

But a fresh study shows that the way to recruit and retain high-performing candidates is to have a compassionate job culture. 

Catalyst surveyed 148 women and 344 men who all earned their MBA degrees at premier business schools between 1996 and 2007.

44% of the women were likely to move to a new job if the companies work culture didn’t match their preferred culture. 46% of the men said the same.