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Some company heads hoped return-to-office mandates would make people quit, survey says
(arstechnica.com)
this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2024
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Really dumb, because it means your most talented employees will quit (because they can get a better offer elsewhere). This isn’t like a targeted layoff.
If you can replace one talented high-wage employee with 3 college hires then do this a couple times statistically you're still going to retain some talented employees because not all can leave. Those that remain will train the others ou of necessity either directly by management or indirectly by a fear of missing timelines/ego/being the local expert/etc.
Management knows this and actively encourages this behavior because by the time the talented employee burns out and self-destructs, at least one trainee will be competent enough to keep things moving.
Or, they don't really need the expertise they claim to need.