I know a lot of people who say this as a sort of implied "maybe not do any of this", but the alternative solution is "do all of this"
There are obviously sometimes conflicting requests, but imagine if you had staff whose main job was making sure employees enjoy their working environment and you just shifted stuff in and out of the office as requests changed. Almost every employee would have their pet want fulfilled and you could be experimenting with new stuff every day.
Sounds really expensive, but imagine what something like that might to do turnover if done well
EDIT: it sounds like you did try a lot of stuff, didn't mean to imply you didn't. I just wonder what the logical endpoint of this idea is and whether it is workable
Hiring a full time staff to do this? Yeah, that happens at big, rich companies. It doesn't happen at actual startups. Instead the founder or the office admin does it on top of everything else they're supposed to be doing.
Also, anecdotally, adding those things didn't affect my turnover at all. What did affect my turnover? Having (or not having) interesting projects for people to work on.
There are obviously sometimes conflicting requests, but imagine if you had staff whose main job was making sure employees enjoy their working environment and you just shifted stuff in and out of the office as requests changed. Almost every employee would have their pet want fulfilled and you could be experimenting with new stuff every day.
Sounds really expensive, but imagine what something like that might to do turnover if done well
EDIT: it sounds like you did try a lot of stuff, didn't mean to imply you didn't. I just wonder what the logical endpoint of this idea is and whether it is workable