Honestly, I agree. Most business views labor as a commodity and they intentionally divorce the human element away to make sure that they can make 'smart' decisions.
If you want to keep developers who are on top of their game or who are aggressively improving themselves, than you have to aggressively match them.
If you want to hire someone and train them and ensure a ROI, make them sign a contract to stay for a certain amount of time. (Or implement any other myriad of incentives to keep people to stay. Why is an employees responsibility to stay, but not an employers responsibility to incentivize them? "Working for us" is not incentive to work for you!!)
But if you're not willing to compete for labor as a commodity, than you're wanting a cake and to eat it as well.
Take your pick. Labor is a humanless commodity and we will all continue to make decisions as if it is, or it isn't and your developers deserve to reap the fruits of their labor.
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Honestly, I agree. Most business views labor as a commodity and they intentionally divorce the human element away to make sure that they can make 'smart' decisions.
If you want to keep developers who are on top of their game or who are aggressively improving themselves, than you have to aggressively match them.
If you want to hire someone and train them and ensure a ROI, make them sign a contract to stay for a certain amount of time. (Or implement any other myriad of incentives to keep people to stay. Why is an employees responsibility to stay, but not an employers responsibility to incentivize them? "Working for us" is not incentive to work for you!!)
But if you're not willing to compete for labor as a commodity, than you're wanting a cake and to eat it as well.
Take your pick. Labor is a humanless commodity and we will all continue to make decisions as if it is, or it isn't and your developers deserve to reap the fruits of their labor.