I'm talking about the loyalty of the employer to you. Obviously personal family relations are at a different scale. That's a straw man.
If you just come to the job and take a payment with no emotional or ideological involvement like a salary robot that's great for you.
I think most employees haven't worked in a great working environment which is why people shut themselves out of even the possibility of forming some attachment.
I can only speak for me and my 20+ years of working in IT now.
I've always started working at a company with enthusiasm not because "yay, new job" but because it was interesting to face a new environment, market and challenge.
Loyalty comes afterwards when you've been in the trenches together.
90% of the times I was in the trenches with a couple of colleagues or alone because "you are so good / please take care of this / I can only trust you" and other bullshit empty praise and ended up realising shortly after that it was yet another company simply doing what is in its nature. Profiting from every possible source, even it's own internal organs (the employees).
I get that. I've been working in this industry for 30+ a lot of it as a consultant. As such I moved between many organizations. I 100% agree that this is the default and the common situation.
I did experience what felt like the opposite of that. Rare cases of companies where people would come back after moving to a different company. Companies where people actually liked the head of HR because she was great and made us all feel welcomed.
Having said that, this post doesn't advocate being naive. I'm loyal to a good boss, but that also means I feel comfortable enough with having linkedin tuned to always looking for new offers. The difference is, if I get an offer I'll let the existing boss counter offer before I move. The same is true for salary in general, I feel free to ask for a raise when I feel I deserve it.
Notice this is about loyalty from the company to employees most of all. Proper compensation is part of that.
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I'm talking about the loyalty of the employer to you. Obviously personal family relations are at a different scale. That's a straw man.
If you just come to the job and take a payment with no emotional or ideological involvement like a salary robot that's great for you.
I think most employees haven't worked in a great working environment which is why people shut themselves out of even the possibility of forming some attachment.
I can only speak for me and my 20+ years of working in IT now.
I've always started working at a company with enthusiasm not because "yay, new job" but because it was interesting to face a new environment, market and challenge.
Loyalty comes afterwards when you've been in the trenches together.
90% of the times I was in the trenches with a couple of colleagues or alone because "you are so good / please take care of this / I can only trust you" and other bullshit empty praise and ended up realising shortly after that it was yet another company simply doing what is in its nature. Profiting from every possible source, even it's own internal organs (the employees).
Thanks, no thanks.
I get that. I've been working in this industry for 30+ a lot of it as a consultant. As such I moved between many organizations. I 100% agree that this is the default and the common situation.
I did experience what felt like the opposite of that. Rare cases of companies where people would come back after moving to a different company. Companies where people actually liked the head of HR because she was great and made us all feel welcomed.
Having said that, this post doesn't advocate being naive. I'm loyal to a good boss, but that also means I feel comfortable enough with having linkedin tuned to always looking for new offers. The difference is, if I get an offer I'll let the existing boss counter offer before I move. The same is true for salary in general, I feel free to ask for a raise when I feel I deserve it.
Notice this is about loyalty from the company to employees most of all. Proper compensation is part of that.