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dpritchett on Nov 17, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Poaching Etiquette: The Right Way To Take Tech Tal...

I learned at a previous employer that HR's "how big should our raises be this year" numbers were influenced by year over year turnover trends. If too many people quit, raises went up the next year.

esrauch on Nov 17, 2011 [–]

Sounds exactly like properly evaluating supply and demand to get the result that they want.

dpritchett on Nov 18, 2011 | [–]

True. It also implies that employees are fungible.

This is a common assumption but employees should nevertheless recognize their artificially constrained career prospects in such a system.

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