Retaining your company memory
I am always amazed at the people that some companies choose to lay off during an economic down turn. It is usually someone who has a staff job or is in some other way seen as disposable. Typically, they have been with the company a long time and make a salary at the high end of their job description.
What companies sometimes fail to realize is that these people are a repository of the company’s history. They know who did what, what was done right and what was done wrong for the last ten, twenty or even thirty years.
Think about it. Most people stay with companies two or three years and then leave. That means that most of the company’s personnel don’t know what happened before they got there.
So, to my way of thinking, letting what of these old timers go is like having a stroke. Its as if part of the company’s brain cells that control memory have been suddenly wiped out.
When you see the results of some of these layoffs you realize just how devastating this can be. Some examples in my next posting.
Bertie commented:
How neat! Is it really this simlpe? You make it look easy.
River commented:
More posts of this quliaty. Not the usual c***, please
Nate Scheidler commented:
Nate Scheidler commented:
