Re:Amazon’s HR Failures
by shishy on Friday June 18, 2021 @10:17AM
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Yes. I've worked at a place where the CEO up and said "we're OK with losing <X>% of employees per quarter" which was just insane to me to release that publicly to everyone, at a time when all our friends were leaving or given the boot. Really killed morale.
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Tech has (and other industries have) a characteristic turnover rate and people have all sorts of reasons to change jobs, so being OK with losing an appropriately chosen X% per quarter seems perfectly rational and appropriate.
I like the teams we have here, but I'm OK with losing about 2% of employees per quarter in the same way that I'm OK with it being snowier in the wintertime.
You need to be okay with losing X% of employees because they're going to quit for their own reasons, or they're going to be hit by a bus, or want to change jobs internally.
This doesn't mean that you push them out, but rather that you make sure more than one person knows how everything works.