Employee Retention
Saturday, January 12th, 2008At work, keeping the “young kids” around is a really big problem.
You see, I work for a division that has been around for 40 years in a company that is over 120 years old. My division had its heyday in 1980 and most of its employees are aged to match. They are all creeping nearer and nearer retirement and my employer is having difficulty solving the need for new blood in preparation for the soon-to-be boomer exodus.
In the time I’ve been employed there, almost all of the people with whom I started have left and been replaced with fewer, younger employees. Management has only recently grasped the enormity of the problem, and is still treating it with the backroom secrecy that was popular before the dot-com bubble.
They are of the same mind and opinion as the people who researched and wrote this article:
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/011008-young-workers-hard-to-retain.html
Lets talk about why this article is so completely out of touch with reality, shall we?
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