I agree with you in principle. But an employment isn't the same as a relationship with a Person.
Life in most large corporates starts with heightened expectation in the first few weeks/days and from there on its a constant decline and a complete mismatch in what the person expected and what the actual reality is.
My experiences have been horrible, I've seen a never ending timeline of nepotism, biased behaviors and partiality in large companies. Endless bureaucracy, politics and socialist style of 'one works, everyone else leeches on him' style of working very common.
Its this bitter fact is what causes the maximum attrition of good people from the company and not the inevitable boredom that happens with historical baggage.
That explains IMHO the average cycle of 5 years per employer.
Year one: Your happy that everything is new, you learn a lot and are releaved to have quit your old job.
Year two: You start to see the cracks, but you are still motivated and full of energy, right? You try to fix it and still happy.
Year three:You can't fix everything and you start to hit walls. You realize things aren't actually that different from before but still different. you hang on.
Year four: After a possible internal change you finally realize that it's just more of the same in a different colour, you start to think about another change.
Year five:the same shit as before, without a perspective, at least non you like, you find something else. The cycle starts again.
Good people management as discribed in the article and the linked articles can mitigate this. Really good companies may add a cpuple of years, perfect ones may retain you forever if they exist at all. But sooner or later you will get something different, not necessarily better. Sad thing is that alo tof companies, and I don't mean your direct boss here but companies in general, do near to nothing about it. The end result being that the whole system is nearing the absolute average, the talents either being bosses (if they adapt, pgs essay on popularity comes to my mind), burned out and disillusioned (pretty likely) or start-up founders (where possible and hopefully successfull).
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I agree with you in principle. But an employment isn't the same as a relationship with a Person.
Life in most large corporates starts with heightened expectation in the first few weeks/days and from there on its a constant decline and a complete mismatch in what the person expected and what the actual reality is.
My experiences have been horrible, I've seen a never ending timeline of nepotism, biased behaviors and partiality in large companies. Endless bureaucracy, politics and socialist style of 'one works, everyone else leeches on him' style of working very common.
Its this bitter fact is what causes the maximum attrition of good people from the company and not the inevitable boredom that happens with historical baggage.
That explains IMHO the average cycle of 5 years per employer. Year one: Your happy that everything is new, you learn a lot and are releaved to have quit your old job. Year two: You start to see the cracks, but you are still motivated and full of energy, right? You try to fix it and still happy. Year three:You can't fix everything and you start to hit walls. You realize things aren't actually that different from before but still different. you hang on. Year four: After a possible internal change you finally realize that it's just more of the same in a different colour, you start to think about another change. Year five:the same shit as before, without a perspective, at least non you like, you find something else. The cycle starts again.
Good people management as discribed in the article and the linked articles can mitigate this. Really good companies may add a cpuple of years, perfect ones may retain you forever if they exist at all. But sooner or later you will get something different, not necessarily better. Sad thing is that alo tof companies, and I don't mean your direct boss here but companies in general, do near to nothing about it. The end result being that the whole system is nearing the absolute average, the talents either being bosses (if they adapt, pgs essay on popularity comes to my mind), burned out and disillusioned (pretty likely) or start-up founders (where possible and hopefully successfull).