Submission + - Ten Million Dollars, One Question About Employee Retention (linkedin.com)
me34point5 writes: Organizations routinely calculate the cost of employee compensation, but the value of institutional knowledge is much harder to quantify. Experienced IT professionals can carry years of undocumented system knowledge, operational history, and relationships that aren't easily replaced.
In Ten Million Dollars, One Question, and a Lesson in Employee Retention, a longtime systems administrator reflects on a professional experience that raises a larger question: How much does it actually cost an organization when management fails to recognize the value of its people?
For Slashdot readers who've watched experienced colleagues leave—or have been those colleagues themselves—is institutional knowledge something employers can realistically measure, or do they only discover its value after it's gone?
In Ten Million Dollars, One Question, and a Lesson in Employee Retention, a longtime systems administrator reflects on a professional experience that raises a larger question: How much does it actually cost an organization when management fails to recognize the value of its people?
For Slashdot readers who've watched experienced colleagues leave—or have been those colleagues themselves—is institutional knowledge something employers can realistically measure, or do they only discover its value after it's gone?
