It crossed my mind recently that employers should pay very close attention to which companies are hiring employees away from them. These companies represent your market competition. Two things you should be asking yourself:
1. If you are losing top talent to one specific competitor, why and what can you do about it?
2. Are you also hiring away top talent from you competitor, or is this a one way street?
There's really no way around this simple truth: Great companies are built by great employees.
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In my industry, most of the best stay put. We have never directly lost any critical person to a competitor. We have loss some to not wanting to live through another Maine winter.
There is a core, perhaps called a cadre of fringe workers who do rotate within our sector from employers without the workload to employers with the workload.