Hey Palantir, if you don’t want another company to “steal” (
) your “diverse staff” (
) maybe try hiring more than a single white woman executive. Maybe try hiring people of color too. Maybe try promoting them!
I dunno, just a thought.https://twitter.com/triketora/status/1082407670991196162 …
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You could start, though, by shifting your thinking about those folks (and hell, while we’re at it, the rest of your staff too!). It’s really hard to believe this needs to be said out loud, but: Your staff is NOT your property. They cannot be “stolen.”
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Thinking about staff as “property that can be stolen” places the locus of control externally - e.g. “everything was fine until GoogBook STOLE them!” You’re making it GoogBook’s fault that an employee left. Oh well, nothing you could do about that, right??
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Instead of thinking about them as property, it may be helpful to think about them as individuals with free will - who will vote with their feet when it comes to the quality of your workplace.
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Thinking about your staff as individuals with free will places the locus of control internally, e.g. “we couldn’t offer them what GoogBook did.” That is where you want the responsibility to lay if you’re serious about retention.
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And if you’re a business who wants to maximize profits long term, you should be serious about retention. More and more, I suspect that being serious about retention - for everyone - is absolutely required to build diverse teams.
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Replying to @sarahmei
Three “weird tricks” to increase retention: 1. Give people pay rises they didn’t ask for or are more than they are expecting. 2. Promote internally. 3. Especially do the above for unrepresented folk.
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2 (and by extension to a lesser extent 1) seem easier much easier at bigger companies. How's it work somewhere smaller where there's just not that many places people can be promoted to?
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Replying to @joshuapaling @sarahmei
As a dev grows in a small company they are providing the company with more value. So pay them more. Promote to Senior or Lead. Involve them in sales and marketing and finance and strategy. Turn them into your next CTO.
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