Comments on: Your Best Employees Will Quit. Here’s What To Do About It.

By: Adjie Purbojati

Adjie Purbojati — Fri, 20 May 2022 14:15:36 +0000

Thank you!

By: Collin Davis

Collin Davis — Thu, 05 Mar 2020 01:02:15 +0000

As someone who started his business 3 months ago, having an employee quit in his 3rd month has been an absolute sucker punch. Thank you for these learnings.

By: Alex Murphy

Alex Murphy — Sat, 08 Jul 2017 03:26:07 +0000

Thanks for this post Alex. We just had our first key employee give his two weeks notice today – this was extremely helpful 🙂

By: Joshua Dance

Joshua Dance — Wed, 07 Jun 2017 17:02:57 +0000

How do you deal with announcing that to the company? Do you let them drift off quietly or do you annouce “So and so is moving on, thanks for all the great work”

By: Moshe

Moshe — Sun, 15 Jan 2017 19:22:54 +0000

I agree, sadly the last company I worked with was too petty. Not only did they not support me when I outgrew them, they withed the last payment.

By: Raghu V

Raghu V — Thu, 29 Sep 2016 14:45:52 +0000

Nice article. explained well. my views https://raghuvarmabh.wordpress.com/2016/09/29/what-to-do-when-a-key-employee-leaves-company/

By: Roy Reveltas

Roy Reveltas — Sat, 23 Apr 2016 18:59:24 +0000

Hi Alex, thank you for taking time to write the article. I believe you missed two important points (both mentioned in famous Netflix Values slides btw) — 1) pay your employees the top 10% in the industry/location. This will remove monetary reason from the table and cut off headhunters. 2) Same goes with titles: CEO should also make sure company never promotes too late. If your junior dev is teaching others, promote right now, period (happened to me twice). These two reasons were the reasons why I left all my past workplaces. I was either (often, greatly) underpaid, or I was doing next job level’s work and company did nothing about it for too long.

By: Fabiola Martinez

Fabiola Martinez — Sun, 13 Dec 2015 02:11:09 +0000

You’re crushing it everywhere Alex! This is an amazing and insightful article with powerful recommendations. Thank you for sharing your journey, I’ve been learning a lot thanks to Groove.

By: wtf2020lol

wtf2020lol — Thu, 10 Dec 2015 21:00:02 +0000

After you announce you are giong to leave, it’s funny how some manager think they can throw money at you to keep you leaving, but they didn’t care the last time they didn’t give out raises to anyone. When I give notice, I’ve already “moved on”, so too late to offer me a raise now.

By: Lincoln Parks

Lincoln Parks — Thu, 10 Dec 2015 20:58:31 +0000

The importance is treating and making sure that employees feel like they are important to the organization. Some are going to leave, its just the way it is. Its like the story of the sower and the reaper in the bible. Some just don’t stay. Great post Alex.

By: Rodion Telpizov

Rodion Telpizov — Thu, 10 Dec 2015 19:50:33 +0000

Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this Alex! As always very helpful.
How do you encourage your employees to implement their own initiatives and generate new ideas?
I’ve noticed its something hard for me, but trying to find ways to do this.