A working partner and kids are key to retaining foreign staff
Dutch NewsSome six in 10 Europeans who come to the Netherlands to work, and seven in 10 from non-EU countries have left again within five years of arriving, according to new figures from national statistics agency CBS. Although most people who come to the Netherlands to work leave again, people with partners and children are increasingly likely to stay, particularly if they come from a non-EU country. Over 70% of foreign workers without a partner had gone within five years, but just around 30% of those who came to the Netherlands between 2013 and 2016 and had children and a working partner left over the same period. The network of local authority “expat centres”, where new arrivals go for help with sorting out their paperwork, is making helping partners find a job a key part of their operations.
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