A little over a year ago, I wrote about my company and how many of the upper management were leaving. Things cooled off later that summer, but now it’s happening again. The manager of my department, who has been there almost 10 years, is leaving at the end of the month. The head of project management left this past week. The CFO is also leaving at the end of the month. Several other co-workers are heading out the door, too.

Once again, I’m concerned with the direction the company is taking. Many of these people are leaving for a competitor. They’re being wooed by the money and supposedly a better environment. Fine, I can buy that. My concern, though, is how the leadership of the company is handling this. Namely, I want to know what is being done to try to keep this talent from leaving. As far as I’m aware, nothing at all is being done. The senior VP who is in charge of my “branch” of the company is simply letting them walk, or, if he is trying to keep them, isn’t coming close to matching the offers. Bigger than that, maybe some of these people know something I don’t or are so disgruntled that it doesn’t matter what is being offered to them to stay.

You can replace a person but you cannot replace the experience. Letting someone who has been with the company 10yrs walk is really going to hurt us. What’s more is that the type of people who are being wooed away are the ones who can actually do their job and do it well. The type of people that are leaving are quality. Who does that leave behind…?

I like my job, especially my new responsibilities. I like my co-workers, my hours, my workload, the location. But when do I need to put this aside and think about the future? When is it time that I at least consider other employment?