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0 pointsjpgvm4y ago0 comments

Every employee you manage to retain in turn reduces HR work however, I imagine even if the sum isn't quite balanced (i.e it's slightly more work to retain than re-hire) then the difference is very easily offset by the massive reduction in disruption to the team in question.

If HR is infact the reason why this doesn't happen then HR is hamstringing the rest of the company.

The difference between companies with high retention vs low retention is massive in my experience, both in terms of code quality and morale. Anecdotally companies with higher retention did better with raises but also generally better with hiring (so they had higher quality employees worth awarding raises to).

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urthor4y ago

>If HR is infact the reason why this doesn't happen then HR is hamstringing the rest of the company.

Yes, exactly.

The thing is you then have to hire a competent HR member to do all this. Believe it or not, the HR industry is actually even more mercenary than the software developer industry.

If you want a good HR employee, it costs money.

All in all it adds up to a "high investment, high reward", approach to hiring and retaining employees. Highly paid HR, highly paid employees, all as pre-requisites to a "good faith" market indexed pay raise.

But for many, many companies, this HR model doesn't make sense, or else management has decided not to implement it.

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