Retaining Employees

Complaints about how difficult it is to retain employees could in some cases be tied to industry challenges, the very nature of the job in question being a short-term or less stable one.  Efforts to retain workers here are not necessarily manipulative or born out of irrationalistic neglect of workplace exploitation.  For companies and employers who make a job a place of hostility, unnecessary tension, and genuine injustice, to wonder why workers leave when they can afford to is asinine.  Compounding the irrationality, the same employers who wonder why people leave might think that they simply are not doing enough to entice employees to stay, but not when it comes to removing the core moral problems.  No, they would rather try to conjure up cheap, superficial company gatherings or the like instead.

Many businesses cannot thrive to their greatest extent without employees who remain with their company for relatively long periods of time, develop or establish their skills, and are supportive of their company culture.  It is not exactly unsurprising that many employees seem to be taking great care to avoid abusive or sometimes even shallow workplaces, and still some employers think that if they only occasionally offer free meals or pressure people to meet up as a group outside of work to "bond," they do not need to pay well or avoid things like slander, micromanaging, and piling on extreme amounts of work.  The real factors that are most likely to inspire employee loyalty are for the most part ignored across a multitude of companies.

Employers who desperately want or need to retain employees do not deserve to have workers stay unless they are willing to provide livable compensation, not impose irrational demands (whether they are arbitrary, hypocritical, emotionalistic, or gratuitous), and not dehumanize their workforce.  Though being an employer does not make someone abusive or domineering, there are many employers who think that it is best for their business to oppress the very people who their business relies on: their workers, their vendors, or their consumers.  Since it is easier to conceal the abuse of workers or vendors from the public, and because trampling on them is assumed to be morally right or unimportant by many people, it is the employees whom a certain kind of employer will use and discard at whim.

To believe anything is true because of preference, appeal, or pragmatic consequences is of inherently irrational.  To act on irrational ideas or even truths that have only been assumed is irrational.  Cruel, selfish employers are guilty of this.  They might additionally be irrational in that they not only believe and do all of these emotionalistic or egoistic things, but they also are or act surprised when employees quit or share their negative experiences with others.  What kind of fool would expect people to remain loyal to abusive employers and working conditions?  What kind of fool would expect someone to sacrifice their mental health, their physical health, or the whole of their free time to support a company that does not treat them as anything more than a disposable tool?

Any employer who is not a rationalist, like any politician or other leader, does not deserve any sort of power until they first abandon their irrationalism and seek the most foundational power of alignment with reason.  Until or unless they become a rationalist, an abusive employer might legitimately ignore or misunderstand the rather glaring fact that it is often never in an employee's interests to show loyalty to a company that does not treat them as a full human being whose work-related dimensions are among their least important.  Employees are not rational, morally upright people by virtue of being employees as some liberals like to pretend, but they have done nothing wrong by Biblical standards even in suddenly leaving a predatory company without providing any notice whatsoever.