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Do You Know Why Employees Leave Your Company?
- sidlls 7y agoThe manner in which employees leave is rarely going to have any meaningful signal in white collar organizations. The vast majority of employees will give reasonable notice (1-2 weeks) and they will not be forthcoming about all the real reasons for departing. Their colleagues are also unlikely to grant any insight. The truth is employees leave for reasons of salary, growth, and because they lose trust in their managers to be effective. These things are rarely something management is interested in hearing about much less doing anything about. And being candid about the reasons only has the possibility of harming the person leaving: they gain nothing because the employer certainly isn't going to care and they risk offending someone and burning a bridge.
- HillaryBriss 7y ago> they will not be forthcoming about all the real reasons for departing I can relate to that. I once quit a startup and then went through an exit interview with the CEO, a person I respected. The CEO felt bad that someone was leaving at an early stage and said that it meant "we must be doing something wrong." One of the big reasons I left was that I didn't like my boss's personality and communication style. But, I didn't tell the CEO that. I just said I had an excellent opportunity to work at another company with some old friends and I really had to take it (which was also true). Even though I didn't like my immediate boss's personality, I didn't wish them ill. I just wanted to move on.