How to retain millennials? Diversity at workplace can do the trick

Educational background tops age, gender, disability, ethnicity, social status, sexual identity or orientation and religion as an area of diversity young workers say businesses should work on most

There’s no straightforward solution to keeping workers happy these days.

Companies that are diverse retain younger workers longer, yet that’s not as simple as increasing the number of women in management or hiring from different ethnic and racial groups. Millennial workers and those in Generation Z -- the demographic after the millennials, born from about the mid-1990s -- say businesses most need to address having workers with varied educational backgrounds, according to a Deloitte study.

Educational background tops age, gender, disability, ethnicity, social status, sexual identity or orientation and religion as an area of diversity young workers say businesses should work on