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That's a valid point, that it could potentially be more expensive than it's worth. In other words, it is possible to spend too much on trying to make your employees happier. I wasn…

I agree completely with this. I was writing about turnover of high performing employees, which is crazy expensive. Turning over low performers is valuable and important for compani…

Exactly. In this article I was focused on regrettable turnover (when you wish the employee didn't leave), as opposed to non-regrettable turnover, which is very healthy.

This is a great point. I've seen companies that are great and companies that are horrible about substantially increasing the compensation of their top performers. It makes a huge d…

I agree with you -- I wrote this with regrettable turnover in mind. Parting ways with a low performer is definitely a valuable thing to do!

Great point, we're definitely aware of one more tool issue, so we have to make sure we're sufficiently valuable and lightweight to use. It's not meant to be task management, but ra…

I thought about this more and I think you're right. Some companies do become very short term focused when they go public, but when you not longer have to worry about short term sur…