DocumentCode
1533462
Title
Engineers will tolerate a lot of abuse
Author
Humphrey, Watts S.
Author_Institution
SEI, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Volume
18
Issue
5
fYear
2001
Firstpage
13
Lastpage
15
Abstract
Every year, one in five programmers changes jobs. The waste of time and money is extraordinary. If you could prevent just one programmer from leaving, you would save your organization $50,000 to $100,000 in replacement and training costs alone. Turnover is expensive now and the costs will likely increase. To address the turnover problem, we must understand it. The author considers the principles of employee turnover
Keywords
DP industry; employment; human resource management; personnel; costs; employee turnover; jobs; organization; programmers; training; Acoustical engineering; Companies; Contracts; Costs; Engineering management; Pain; Personnel; Programming profession; Security; System testing;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Software, IEEE
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0740-7459
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/52.951487
Filename
951487
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