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Return to the office? These workers quit instead. (news.yahoo.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Return to the office? These workers quit instead.::When Rowan Rosenthal heard about Grindr's return-to-office mandate during a virtual town hall meeting in August, anxiety, confusion and anger set in. The principal product designer lived within a 25-minute bike ride from the company's Brooklyn office but instead was required to report to one in Los Angeles, where Rosenthal's department was assigned. This doesn't make sense and there's no way this will happen, Rosenthal thought. But it did happen. And two weeks later, Rosenthal realized that desp

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

The best ones are generally paid the most.

You got a cycle or two of firing the best hiring cheaper promoting from inside until you lose all of the useful people in the company than everybody moves on in the cycle begins anew

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Have you ever worked in a place where 20% - 30% of all workers have left (voluntarily or not)?

Forget your cycles then. It feels like the company is unable to do anything useful anymore, and then even the ones who don't give a damn about anything, those who only let time go by, are starting to look for a way out of there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Yes, three times now, I've begun to envy the ones getting severance and moving on.

The smart companies will use a pretty decent carrot on a stick to retain just enough people to retrain the new people.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

The best ones are generally paid the most.

And generally the ones you don't want going to a competitor...