• 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