If I may respectfully be so bold: If an employee has have given his notice, you failed to retain him. I mean, if it suits you, I suppose you can counter and try to get him to stay. As an employee, I might think the employer were trying to keep them short term to find a replacement and then fire them. As the employer, I would realize that the employee has already taken the significant personal steps of looking, finding, interviewing, and accepting a new position, and the never-fun step of resigning; that's all tough to undo.
By employee retention, I mean making it so employees want to stay, low turnover that is not the result of a bad economy, providing a job that employees would not consider leaving. (Versus, say, chains.) Cheers, Sean -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gene Kim-Eng Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 10:23 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [TCP] employee retention How do you define an "attempt at employee retention?" Does it include just running a company well enough that it has low turnover because its employees tend not to leave very often, or are you referring to attempts to persuade employees who have given their notice to change their minds and stay? DISCLAIMER: Important Notice ************************************************* This e-mail may contain information that is confidential, privileged or otherwise protected from disclosure. If you are not an intended recipient of this e-mail, do not duplicate or redistribute it by any means. Please delete it and any attachments and notify the sender that you have received it in error. Unintended recipients are prohibited from taking action on the basis of information in this e-mail.E-mail messages may contain computer viruses or other defects, may not be accurately replicated on other systems, or may be intercepted, deleted or interfered with without the knowledge of the sender or the intended recipient. If you are not comfortable with the risks associated with e-mail messages, you may decide not to use e-mail to communicate with IPC. IPC reserves the right, to the extent and under circumstances permitted by applicable law, to retain, monitor and intercept e-mail messages to and from its systems. ______________________________________________ Author Help files and create printed documentation with Doc-To-Help. New release adds Team Authoring Support, enhanced Web-based help technology and PDF output. Learn more at www.doctohelp.com/tcp. Interactive 3D Documentation Parts catalogs, animated instructions, and more. www.i3deverywhere.com _______________________________________________ Technical Communication Professionals Post a message to the list: email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, unsubscribe, archives, account options, list info: http://techcommpros.com/mailman/listinfo/tcp_techcommpros.com Subscribe (email): send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe (email): send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Need help? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Get the TCP whole experience! http://www.techcommpros.com
