IT bosses: focus on staff retention

This article although based on a small section of data is an interesting comment. I often wondered why employers let experienced staff go to another job, when the only reason they have left is for a small pay rise.

Of course it isn't always easy to give someone a pay rise without rocking the boat for the rest of the developers.

I suppose I am wondering is how much the value of company knowledge. This sort of knowledge is about knowing how all the company systems, software and people work. These things take usually about six months to work out because each company has it's own way of doing things, usually a different collection of software used to do it. This isn't really going into detail about customer knowledge and in depth knowledge of particular projects.

It always strikes me as a loss when a developer leaves to go somewhere else for a £1000 pay rise but often the employer won't give him that extra money.

Still I would perhaps see it differently from the other side of the fence. Also when people do leave things continue, someone else struggles along to begin with but then 3 months later everything is working as it was before.

It's an interesting issue on how employers try to retain their staff and it's not all down to wages, it could be sending their employees on training courses or giving them moreresponsibilityy etc.

lets just hope it's true and my employee starts showing me with training, that etc monitor I wanted, a big pay rise, overtime, sky tv, a secretary, etc etc,