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Originally Posted by Zeke
Head, you seem to contradict yourself there. How does a business get helped if the best leave?
You guys do know there's a 100 Best Places to Work put out by Forbes? It is possible that workers will stay, do a great job and actually get less money. There are so many internal and external factors. The only control the employer has is over the internal ones.
It seems to me that this subject can't be so foreign or hard to understand. What are we seeing when we watch "Undercover Boss?" The script is always the same, but do some of these execs "get it" after working out in the field and in the plant? The show would have you believe they do. More than once that show has choked me up.
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I agree that it seems like a contradiciton, but I don't think it is. The business benefits by having outstanding employees for a period of time, many of which eventually move on. Some do stay.
I worked for my last employer for eight years, which I consider to be a pretty long time for IT. They reimbursed me for college. They paid to send me to training. They reimbursed my costs for certification tests. All of these things improved my resume and made me a better candidate for when I felt like moving on. But for those eight years they had a good employee. I was working hard, always learning more, always looking for opportunities to improve our infrastructure and processes. Because the company was supportive in this way, they had environment full of techs all trying to better themselves, all working hard, and yes, all planning for how they were going to eventually leave the company and find something better. But these benefits are why I stayed for eight years, otherwise I would have left sooner.
We just promoted a guy up from the Help Desk to a Sys Admin position. If he hadn't had the opportunity to move up, he would be leaving right now. He's a young go-getter trying to learn as much as he can and move up the ladder. He's a big assett to our team. The only reason we had that opening is because somebody else left. That guy was a loss for sure. But we'll be okay, and we're tyring to have an environment that promotes growth and learning.
I think an employer/employee relationship should benefit both parties. You want me to contribute to the company's success? Okay, what are you going to do to contribute to my success? A paycheck isn't enough.