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Apr. 13th, 2008
The "Dead Sea Effect" in IT employment
Apr. 13th, 2008 02:37 amThe "Dead Sea Effect" describes what happens when you have have a highly mobile work force, and is going to be the model for the future, because right now, we are loosing "Baby Boomers", and the generation after them was much smaller, which means that a talented people, or even slightly talented people will have their choice of employment in the future. Here is a quote from the excellent article by Bruce F. Webster,
...what happens is that the more talented and effective IT engineers are the ones most likely to leave — to evaporate, if you will. They are the ones least likely to put up with the frequent stupidities and workplace problems that plague large organizations; they are also the ones most likely to have other opportunities that they can readily move to.
What tends to remain behind is the ‘residue’ — the least talented and effective IT engineers. They tend to be grateful they have a job and make fewer demands on management; even if they find the workplace unpleasant, they are the least likely to be able to find a job elsewhere. They tend to entrench themselves, becoming maintenance experts on critical systems, assuming responsibilities that no one else wants so that the organization can’t afford to let them go.
URL to article: http://brucefwebster.com/2008/04/11/the-wetware-crisis-the-dead-sea-effect/
...what happens is that the more talented and effective IT engineers are the ones most likely to leave — to evaporate, if you will. They are the ones least likely to put up with the frequent stupidities and workplace problems that plague large organizations; they are also the ones most likely to have other opportunities that they can readily move to.
What tends to remain behind is the ‘residue’ — the least talented and effective IT engineers. They tend to be grateful they have a job and make fewer demands on management; even if they find the workplace unpleasant, they are the least likely to be able to find a job elsewhere. They tend to entrench themselves, becoming maintenance experts on critical systems, assuming responsibilities that no one else wants so that the organization can’t afford to let them go.
URL to article: http://brucefwebster.com/2008/04/11/the-wetware-crisis-the-dead-sea-effect/