The main reason for this kind of turnover is that work in most companies - especially the larger ones - is completely broken.
Employees are paid for the time they waste while being chained to a desk where rather they should be paid for actual work accomplished. Many companies actually value the enforcement of ridiculous 9 to 5 schedules and the requirement of working on site (rather than at least partially remotely) higher than the work you do. In many settings you can easily get away with virtually doing nothing at all as long as you do it during fixed office hours.
What we describe as work today basically is cargo cult from the Industrial Age. We're working with computers and the Internet, yet work is still organized as if we were standing at an assembly line working piece rate.
It's quite telling the article doesn't even mention the possibility of remote or otherwise more flexible working conditions. If they want to retain developers CIOs have to realize they need to forego some control in exchange for more flexible, happier and hence more efficient workers.
As for Harry Fox Agency, music licensing today is - thanks to the outrageous behaviour by the music industry - a somewhat seedy business that probably doesn't appeal too much to ethical, idealistic and loyal people.
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The main reason for this kind of turnover is that work in most companies - especially the larger ones - is completely broken.
Employees are paid for the time they waste while being chained to a desk where rather they should be paid for actual work accomplished. Many companies actually value the enforcement of ridiculous 9 to 5 schedules and the requirement of working on site (rather than at least partially remotely) higher than the work you do. In many settings you can easily get away with virtually doing nothing at all as long as you do it during fixed office hours.
What we describe as work today basically is cargo cult from the Industrial Age. We're working with computers and the Internet, yet work is still organized as if we were standing at an assembly line working piece rate.
It's quite telling the article doesn't even mention the possibility of remote or otherwise more flexible working conditions. If they want to retain developers CIOs have to realize they need to forego some control in exchange for more flexible, happier and hence more efficient workers.
As for Harry Fox Agency, music licensing today is - thanks to the outrageous behaviour by the music industry - a somewhat seedy business that probably doesn't appeal too much to ethical, idealistic and loyal people.