Departure: Why Do People Leave Jobs?
I was reading Jay Withee’s article this morning, “Costs of losing long term employees: walking knowledge” and it got me to thinking just how much of an issue employee departure can be – not simply because of the impact that person leaves and the knowledge that Jay so rightly points out that walks out the door but more so, the underlying reasons of why often point to something much larger.
Costs of Losing Long Term Employees: Walking Knowledge
Why exactly do efficient, knowledgeable, long-term employees leave their jobs? Is it due to bad management, pay, policies, or something else? These are great questions, however, even though this is an extremely important topic, this is not the scope of this article, but it is likely that most of you reading this will have read some sort of literature on this exact subject in either a magazine, newspaper or social media over the past few months.