On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 9:53 PM, Tim Starling <[email protected]>wrote:
> On 28/12/12 12:14, Gayle Karen Young wrote: > >> *2d. Does WMF have "a talent retention problem" and if so what is being > >> done about this? > >> > > > > The short answer is "No." > > > > The simplicity of this question is a bit misleading. I don't think we > have > > a talent retention problem because we have amazing people working for us > > who have and will continue to. The reasons that people move on are > > sometimes but not always problematic. I think it's GOOD for people to > leave > > the organization at various points - for their own career development, > > because the things that were more endemic to a start-up environment are a > > little less prevalent at our stage of organizational growth, etc. > > A count of office.wikimedia.org account deactivations suggests that > about 59 people left the WMF in 2012, for whatever reason. To me, that > seems like a lot of people. Maybe it's occasionally good for people to > leave, but so many? > Does that include interns? I know my interns get access to Office Wiki, so it might skew the numbers higher. I believe LCA has had at least 8-10 (?) interns cycle through in 2012. I've had a couple. -Matthew > > -- Tim Starling > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > -- Matthew Roth Global Communications Manager Wikimedia Foundation +1.415.839.6885 ext 6635 www.wikimediafoundation.org *https://donate.wikimedia.org* _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
