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Originally Posted by Zeke
The last 2 posts do bring up another issue: the best employees can easily get another job. The slackers, not so much....
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I've actually had several conversations over the last few weeks about the employer/employee relationship. I think that employers should invest in what is good for their employees. In my conversations we were specifically talking about investing in training for IT staff and, as much as possible, letting them work on the technologies they were most interested in. Yes, this will lead to the "good ones" leaving, but you will get much better work out of them due to their increased skills and motivation while they are there, and they will probably stay longer to keep getting the training and experience. And they will most likely have an affect on the rest of the team, being a spark that raises the performance of everybody around them. I think this is just one example of how focusing on the employee ultimately helps the business.