We think of retention as a question of conditions: pay, workload, career path. New research on knowledge workers suggests something else matters just as much — whether the work itself still feels meaningful. What the study says In their 2025 article, Joanna Wandycz-Mejias, José Luis Roldán and Alvaro Lopez-Cabrales examine the role of work meaningfulness in relation to turnover intention and job satisfaction among knowledge workers. Framed through self-determination theory, t