Build a Tech Firm Where Your Best People Want to Stay

Your engineers, data scientists, and product teams are in demand everywhere. When they're disengaged, burned out, or uninspired, they don't stick around - and your innovation suffers.

At elevatehx, we help tech and data firms design employee experiences that reduce turnover, improve performance, and strengthen culture. No ping pong tables or free snacks. Just strategic touchpoints that address what your people actually need.

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Tech employees with a poor experience are 3x more likely to leave within 12 months and 2x less productive while they stay.

Gartner's 2024 Digital Worker Experience Survey

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Why Tech Firms Are Losing Their Best Talent

The tech sector is facing a retention crisis. Hired's 2024 State of Tech Salaries Report found that 27% of tech workers left their jobs in the past year - the highest attrition rate across all industries. Each departure costs firms between £50,000–£100,000when you factor in recruitment, onboarding, lost productivity, and project delays.

The friction points we see constantly:

  • Burnout from sprint culture: Constant delivery pressure with no space to recover or innovate

  • Lack of meaningful work: Talented engineers stuck on maintenance or legacy systems, not solving interesting problems

  • Poor management: Developers promoted to leadership without training, creating toxic team dynamics

  • Unclear progression: Career paths feel opaque or capped, especially in scale-ups

  • Perks over substance: Free lunches and bean bags don't compensate for poor culture or overwork

As Stack Overflow's 2024 Developer Survey revealed: "63% of developers say they would leave their current role for better work-life balance, and 58% cite lack of career growth as a top reason for leaving."

And according to Gartner's 2024 Digital Worker Experience Survey: "Tech employees with a poor experience are 3x more likely to leave within 12 months and 2x less productive while they stay."

You can't out-pay the competition forever. You need to create an environment where people want to build, grow, and stay.

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How elevatehx Helps Tech & Data Firms

We don't parachute in with a generic playbook. We listen to your engineers, data scientists, product managers, and leaders—then co-create solutions that fit your culture, growth stage, and technical environment.

Our 5-Day Sprint Includes:

Step 1: Discovery & Listening

  • Confidential interviews with engineers, data teams, product, and leadership

  • Optional anonymous pulse survey

  • Culture and team dynamics audit

Step 2: Journey Mapping & Analysis

  • Map every employee touchpoint from hire to exit

  • Identify friction points, bottlenecks, and "moments that matter"

  • Benchmark against tech sector data

Step 3: Co-Creation Workshop

  • Bring employees and leaders together to design solutions

  • Prioritise quick wins (high impact, low cost) and strategic initiatives

  • Build buy-in across technical and non-technical teams

Step 4: Roadmap & Recommendations

  • Prioritised action plan with ROI analysis

  • Visual employee journey map

  • Diagnostic report with cost/impact recommendations

  • Leadership summary presentation

Investment: from £5,000

Duration: 5 days

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Why This Matters: The Business Case for Employee Experience in Tech

Improving employee experience isn't a "people ops nice-to-have" - it's a commercial and competitive necessity.

The numbers don't lie:

  • Gallup's 2024 State of the Global Workplace: Engaged tech employees are 21% more productive and produce 22% higher profitability

  • GitLab's 2024 Remote Work Report: "Companies with strong employee experience see 50% lower turnover and 30% faster time-to-productivity for new hires"

  • LinkedIn's 2024 Workplace Learning Report: 68% of tech workers would leave for a company that invests more in their development and wellbeing

  • McKinsey's 2024 Tech Talent Report: Replacing a senior engineer costs 2–3x their annual salary when you include recruitment, onboarding, lost knowledge, and project delays

Common Moments That Matter in Tech & Data

Every company is different, but we consistently see these touchpoints make or break the employee experience:

  • Onboarding: Do new hires get proper setup, context, and mentorship, or are they left to figure it out alone?

  • First sprint/project: Is there support and code review, or sink-or-swim pressure?

  • On-call and incident response: Is it manageable and fairly distributed, or a burnout factory?

  • Promotion and career growth: Are criteria clear and fair, or does it feel like a black box?

  • Technical debt and tooling: Can engineers raise concerns about code quality and infrastructure, or is it "ship at all costs"?

  • Learning and development: Is there time and budget for growth, or is it all talk?

  • Exit conversations: Are you learning why people leave, or just ticking an HR box?

We help you identify your moments that matter - and design them intentionally to retain and engage your best technical talent.

What Makes elevatehx Different

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We're not a massive consultancy with a one-size-fits-all approach. We're Lee and Lawrence - two consultants who understand the pace, pressure, and complexity of tech environments.

Our approach:

  • Fast and focused: 5 days from discovery to actionable roadmap (we know you move fast)

  • Employee-led, not top-down: We listen to your engineers and data teams, not just your exec team

  • Commercial mindset: Every recommendation links to measurable business impact (retention, velocity, quality)

  • You own the journey: We equip you to implement and sustain change, no endless retainers

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Who We Work With

We partner with tech and data firms across the UK, including:

  • SaaS and software companies (seed to Series C+)

  • Data and AI consultancies

  • Product and engineering teams in scale-ups

  • Tech-enabled businesses and digital agencies

  • Fintech, healthtech, and edtech firms

Typical client size: 50–200 employees, though we work with firms at all stages.

Larger than 500 people? We would still love to work with you. Book a call to get a custom proposal.

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The war for tech talent isn't slowing down. The companies that win are the ones that create environments where engineers and data teams can do their best work - and actually want to stay.

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 FAQs

  • We keep it short, async-friendly, and genuinely confidential. Engineers talk to us because we're independent and we actually listen - not just another HR initiative.

  • That's common, especially in fast-growing tech companies. We help both sides understand each other's needs and find compromise. Sustainable change requires buy-in from everyone.

  • No. We prioritise quick wins (high impact, low cost) and strategic initiatives (longer-term investments). You control the pace and implementation.

  • You own the roadmap and can implement it internally. We're available for ad-hoc support if needed, but there's no ongoing retainer or dependency.

  • Absolutely. We're set up to work with hybrid, remote, and distributed teams across the UK.

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