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Have you ever wondered how much it costs to recruit a new programmer? The numbers may surprise you.
The most common cost of recruiting a developer which comes to mind is a recruitment agency fee, but it’s just a starter. In the IT world, where there is a talent shortage, hiring a new programmer (or any tech talent) increases in cost and effort as time goes on. The better a programmer is, the more expensive it gets. The best ones are like superstars with their own agents. Employee turnover is a huge problem for most companies and long-time employment is almost unreal. According to the 2015 Recruiter Survey, the average employee tenure is below 6 years; 30% of people change their job in 1-3 years and 29% in 4-6 years. Quarsh’s research gives even more dreadful numbers – 20% of new hires leave in 12 months!
Even with low turn-over you need to be prepared for recruitment costs. These studies show that 79% of the workforce keep their resumes up-to-date and 63% have updated their LinkedIn profile just in case. Are you sure your employees won’t quit on you?
(Score: 2) by KilroySmith on Monday January 02 2017, @12:33AM
>> but the goals should be the same
Why should they?
Business has a goal - make money. Unless your growth makes them money in the reasonably near future, they don't care about it any further than necessary to keep you employed.
You have many goals - make yourself happy, provide for your family, keep up with changes in your field to make sure that you'll be employable next year, grow your responsibilities and move up the ladder if you're so inclined.
There's no necessity that the two sets of goals should be the same, perhaps it's nice if they do but that's about it. Do you believe that Microsoft can have 115,000 employees, all of whose goals are aligned with the company?
(Score: 2) by Common Joe on Monday January 02 2017, @08:33PM
You and I have very different notions of how businesses should run.
This is the best I can do to explain my position in a simple way without writing a book: Businesses serve people and business are made of people. Money is an advanced bartering system to negotiate between two or more people. Businesses first and foremost revolve around the needs and wants of people -- not money. Money is simply the tool they use to accomplish the exchange of goods of services. A byproduct of money is that it also represents the amount of power a person or entity has.
If you remove the human element from this basic equation, then what businesses actually focus on is the power that money provides. Businesses that focus on money actually focus on consolidating power in the hands of a few. When just a few businesses or people have money and no one else does, it destroys the lives of people and eventually that society.
An unhealthy society is not good business.
That's the best I can do. After that, I'm afraid we'll have to agree to disagree.
(Score: 2) by KilroySmith on Tuesday January 03 2017, @12:02AM
You, my friend, are a revolutionary at heart. You want' to change things to your definition of "should"; I'm simply trying to describe my view of what "is".
I think we'll have to disagree respectfully here.