People Leaving Is Normal
Firstly, let’s dispel a myth: it’s completely normal for people to leave your team, your department, and your company. In 2018, based on LinkedIn data, it was reported [Boo18] that the tech sector in the United States has a yearly turnover rate of 13.2%, the highest of any other business sector. Yes, that’s even higher than the retail sector, which was second highest at 13%. Think about that for a second: if your department has 1,000 staff, by the end of the year, on average, you’ll be down to 868 staff through attrition alone. That’s a lot of hiring to do to keep the department the same size. As you saw in Chapter 7, Join Us!, hiring people is hard work, so if people leave, you want to make sure that it’s for the ...
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