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> the point we make in the book is that few employees expect or want lifetime employment at a single company This might be a function of broken promotion proce
by jbapple 11y ago
> the point we make in the book is that few employees expect or want lifetime employment at a single company
This might be a function of broken promotion processes. Perhaps, in a world in which employees believed that they could advance their careers by either staying at one company or moving around, we would see a significant fraction of workers who would want to have long tenures.
- morgante 10y agoIn practice, it's highly inefficient to expect one company to handle all your promotions. Even if you're ready to take on a higher level of responsibility, there's absolutely no guarantee that they have a position open at that level. That's why the alliance model makes sense: you might be going elsewhere to find an open promotion, but that shouldn't imply "disloyalty."
- chrisyeh 11y agoAlas, I think you are correct. One of the people I talked with when writing the book was a young woman who worked for a financial services firm. She loved her job, loved the culture, but told me that she was going to have to leave because the only way to get a promotion was to go to another firm, then return later.