Companies Should Pay for Their Employees to Attend Conferences

Re:Companies Should Pay for Their Employees to Attend Confer... by supercanuck on Monday June 19, 2017 @09:49PM (#14591682)

I think it can be measured, but if we got to that point, are we even human beings and not just organic, robots? I think this plays into what kind of "culture" are you trying to cultivate. Culture is a very hard thing to measure as well.

My old accounting professor use to say, "You get what you measure".

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Re:Companies Should Pay for Their Employees to Attend Confer... by daveJSF on Monday June 19, 2017 @11:28PM (#14591988)

Can't you measure culture by your company employee retention rate quarter over quarter or year over year?

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Re:Companies Should Pay for Their Employees to Attend Confer... by closeparen on Monday June 19, 2017 @11:46PM (#14592052)

You can have a terrible culture among people who are locked in by illiquid equity or the inability to get hired anywhere else.

You can have a great culture among people with a high propensity to want to try new and different things every few years.

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