In this market, if your employees are not happy they will get poached. ...and they'll poach themselves even if you offer them a little salary bump, or a $50 gi

In this market, if your employees are not happy they will get poached. ...and they'll poach themselves even if you offer them a little salary bump, or a $50 gift certificate for that time they came in and worked through the weekend taking 2-hour naps in their office. I've known several people over the years that took fairly large pay cuts just to get to an environment where they were allowed to do a good job, unobstructed, at something they enjoyed and did well. I think this is all lost on many companies, though. It seems to happen most often when the organization has large groups of people that are completely removed from the customer and any negative impact of bad decisions on the production.