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Pointy-haired Management has a response to all that: Three junior developers could be hired for the same price as the Experienced Developer. Losing the ED is better over-all from his perspective, and shows that the Manager is more important than a developer...
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Re^2: Assessing the cost of losing good developers
by lin0 (Curate) on Jun 29, 2007 at 20:14 UTC

    Hi apl,

    The point of view of the Pointy-haired Management is very limited in the sense that they are only considering the $cost_differential instead of the total cost that would include among other things:

    • the cost differential,
    • the cost of acquiring a new employee,
    • the cost of training the new employee,
    • the cost paid to integrate the new employee,
    • the cost of excess overtime payment to compensate the temporary performance downfall,
    • the cost of loss of production or loss of customers, and
    • the monetary value of loss of morale of remaining employees.

    I guess that this lack of vision is what causes so many businesses to fail

    Cheers,

    lin0
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      Hi lin0. You raise a lot of excellent points, all usually ignored by Pointy-Haired Management. Perhaps now is the time to mention The Mythical Man-Month?
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