In an exceedingly data driven economy, it’s obvious that that raising as key competitive differentiators and retaining the talent pool has become a matter of dominant importance. This paper is to provide a background on attrition and also to enlist various factors that build staff displease. This paper also provides inputs and reasoning on satisfactory level of staff towards their job and dealing conditions and to seek out the areas which are important for Indian IT industries. This paper is to provide a detailed literature review of some of the suitable data mining techniques for employee attrition prediction and retention.