‘I can’t take it anymore! We’re short staffed, I’m killing myself to hold it together, nobody says thank you, so goodbye! Life is too short for this. I can work somewhere else.”

Thoughts like that happen many times every day in organizations large and small. If you haven’t heard something like that one, how about the following:

“I was doing just fine working from home. Now they’re making us go back. Call me crazy, but spending three hours in the car doesn’t excite me. I’m updating my resume this afternoon.”

Or this one:

“I’m not passionate about this place. We’re all about stuff I don’t care about, I don’t connect with my manager, and the pay isn’t that great. I need to find a better fit.”

While a certain amount of turnover is healthy and normal, when an employer hemorrhages staff, it can take years to recover. And let’s face it: Retention is tough in a lot of places. Although you can’t make people stay, you can take some critical actions to address the main reasons people say sayonara, so long, and see you later.

Here are five reasons people quit, and what you can do about it.

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