I was working on a startup that could tell an employer if their employees were looking for a new job so they had a chance to try and retain them instead of paying the huge cost of having to hire, train, put strain on the team, etc.
I talked mostly to startups between 10 and 400 people, but the problem I heard from most leaders was "if they are thinking about leaving, fuck em, they are dead to me already". I tried to reason with them, but it was fought as if held like religious belief. I mean if it's your baby they are unhappy with, I guess you can get defensive and maybe you are still in a scrappy mindset, but it was a bit frustrating for me as my idea was not hitting very well :/
My wife was considering leaving her job, but not because she hated the work, or the company, but because she wasn't challenged, given opportunity or paid for her effort, when colleagues got paid more to do 1/20th of the work. If she was managed and compensated properly, she would have been more than happy to be retained, and I imagine there are a lot of others in that scenario (but more who just want to escape their manager of course, which is also very good valuable for the boss to have when trying to retain people).
>I talked mostly to startups between 10 and 400 people, but the problem I heard from most leaders was "if they are thinking about leaving, fuck em, they are dead to me already". I tried to reason with them, but it was fought as if held like religious belief. I mean if it's your baby they are unhappy with, I guess you can get defensive and maybe you are still in a scrappy mindset, but it was a bit frustrating for me as my idea was not hitting very well :/
I've seen HR on several places referring employee changing companies as "treason", not only casually but on internal communication. So with that framing, and the expectancy of employee loyalty, I wouldn't expect retention to be a high priority.
I talked mostly to startups between 10 and 400 people, but the problem I heard from most leaders was "if they are thinking about leaving, fuck em, they are dead to me already". I tried to reason with them, but it was fought as if held like religious belief. I mean if it's your baby they are unhappy with, I guess you can get defensive and maybe you are still in a scrappy mindset, but it was a bit frustrating for me as my idea was not hitting very well :/
My wife was considering leaving her job, but not because she hated the work, or the company, but because she wasn't challenged, given opportunity or paid for her effort, when colleagues got paid more to do 1/20th of the work. If she was managed and compensated properly, she would have been more than happy to be retained, and I imagine there are a lot of others in that scenario (but more who just want to escape their manager of course, which is also very good valuable for the boss to have when trying to retain people).