Causes of Attrition in Software Industry – An Empirical Study

Recently highest employee mobility in India posed some challenges to the organizations to develop the strategies. Software industry is one among the top high employee turnover ratio. This study is aimed to know why employees in software are most ambitious to move to another organization. Questionnaire was administered to 100 employees of the software organizations. It is found that, unfair pay level and increments; lack of freedom to do experimentation; and lack of career progression are the key factors for people to leave the organization and least impact factors are family circumstances/personal health and lack of co-operation.