Another one of those articles...
Please tell us how you incentivise your staff to deprioritise their skill growth in favour of your business? I hope to hear things other than "salary, benefits and bonus" but they have to be monetary.
Please tell us how you incentivise your staff to deprioritise their skill growth in favour of your business? I hope to hear things other than "salary, benefits and bonus" but they have to be monetary.
Software developers: Act in their own self interest in a minor way that's not perfectly in line with he company's interests
Business bloggers: Hey now, cut it out developers! What a bunch of low-attention-span babies you are.
Is it really that common that people expect their current employer to subsidize their “skill growth” when they know they are just going to hop to another company in the near term?
Not judging —- just asking as an outsider looking in.
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Huh, just downvotes so I assume it is expected to be able to train yourself on company time…
Yes, that's common in professions.
> when they know they are just going to hop to another company in the near term?
That's a consequence of employers not willing to keep paying market rate over time. The only way to get back to that rate is to go somewhere else.
Also, most employers are expecting to hire already competent proffesionals, and invest nothing into training people in-house. So for each person that jumps ship, when they hire a replacement, they enjoy a subsidy of said replacement having secretly trained themselves on previous employers' dime.
Another option is to openly state during hiring that new technologies and approaches are not welcome.