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Yes, absolutely. Within my own org of ~50 people, 15% have resigned/contracts ending during Q1 (after 15% in Q4). Of the remaining 85%.. 20% have been around si
by steveBK123 5y ago
Yes, absolutely.
Within my own org of ~50 people, 15% have resigned/contracts ending during Q1 (after 15% in Q4).
Of the remaining 85%.. 20% have been around since before COVID / 65% joined during COVID.
Of our senior engineers & team leads, 70% have joined in last 6-9 months.
Only 3 full time senior engineers with 2 years or more tenure.
We've grown during COVID but we've also just burned through people.
Turnover has hit the point where we stopped doing going away zoom toasts.. people just sort of disappeared.
- 9wzYQbTYsAIc 5y agoSimilar story in smaller orgs, from what I’ve heard - people don’t even bother with the going-away stuff any more.
- metadat 5y agoIt seems like that is more of an artifact of the pandemic and everyone working remote. Are you going to hold a farewell zoom party? I don't think so.
- 9wzYQbTYsAIc 5y ago> Are you going to hold a farewell zoom party? I would, and have. Granted not with an entire org, but it’s still good form to take a few moments to say goodbye.
- steveBK123 5y agoYup, it's not that hard to be decent. If we can have meeting after meeting for working groups, agile kayfabe, status reports, etc for hours recurring weekly.. we can spend 15min on the phone saying thanks, good luck, and see you again a handful of times per year when a teammate leaves.
- steveBK123 5y agoDecent people who respect each other as former/possibly future teammates can & do.
- iso1210 5y agoNewest member of my team has been in the company for 6 years and on my team for 4. I was in the local pub the other day and there was a retirement do for someone who had been here for 35 years, which certainly isn't exceptional (40 years is more noteworthy, and I've known a couple of people who made it to 50 years)