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Turnover is not always bad by any means. Often a company accumulates (bad hires, acquisition, good apples going stale) people who would be better off gone for e
by abraae 10y ago
Turnover is not always bad by any means. Often a company accumulates (bad hires, acquisition, good apples going stale) people who would be better off gone for everyone's sake.
There's good turnover and bad turnover.
- jackaltman 10y agoExactly. In this article I was focused on regrettable turnover (when you wish the employee didn't leave), as opposed to non-regrettable turnover, which is very healthy.
- georgeecollins 10y agoIn my experience, almost every time someone leaves someone regrets it and someone doesn't. The manager who supervised the person will usually say it is for the best. I have worked with great managers who clean house and terrible managers who drive people away, or treat them as scapegoats. In either case it may be identified as healthy turnover.
- flukus 10y agoBut when turnover is high the good ones are much more likely to be leaving.
- ArkyBeagle 10y ago"Good" and "bad" mean different things at different times to the same company.
- flukus 10y agoTrue, but how often is the guy producing awful, half working, over complicated code "good" for the company? That person is typically the last to leave. And we've all seen management reward the firefighter that is also the arsonist, they are never "good" for the company, but the company thinks they are.
- closeparen 10y agoDoesn't the military have a deliberate policy of ensuring high turnover environments by relocating all of its staff every couple of years? Maybe there is something to be said for preventing people from getting too comfortable, or even establish trust relationships outside of the designated bureaucratic channels.