NSA’s top talent is leaving because of low pay, flagging morale, unpopular reorg

Re:NSA’s top talent is leaving because of low pay, flagging ... by peoplewindow on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @05:34AM (#16059917)

This is fine if the performance is low but positive and if, as sibling comment points out, your organisation can absorb large amounts of waste.

When an employee's performance is actually negative, i.e. they make things worse rather than better e.g. due to personality issues, then moving them around isn't going to work well.

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Re:NSA’s top talent is leaving because of low pay, flagging ... by vidarh on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @06:01AM (#16060035)

It's worked well in every company I've worked in. The one person I fired is the only one of hundreds of developers I've worked with whose performance was actually negative once we'd tried to shift people around, and while some were probably "wasteful" for a while until we found work they could do that justified their salary, most were not.

A lot of the time people are just not in the position that's right for them.

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Re:NSA’s top talent is leaving because of low pay, flagging ... by pferde on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @07:08AM (#16060318)

> A lot of the time people are just not in the position that's right for them.

And a lot of the time the right position for such a person is in a different company.

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Re:NSA’s top talent is leaving because of low pay, flagging ... by vidarh on Thursday January 04, 2018 @02:52PM (#16073444)

With that attitude, yes - if you don't try, of course you won't find alternatives. Most people that do try rarely need to fire staff.

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