Retention

At a company, an individual contributor may know best how the company goes with their staff retention.

I read in one blog post that promoting people to the manager level may not do retention that effective as giving out movie tickets to employees. You may totally argue with this statement but there are many people out there who just want to be on the professional track, design and build stuff, as opposed to going to the nitty gritty people managing pond. And I smiled when the founders of lynda.com announced we are all going to Disneyland with friends/family and stay for night in the grand resort. I am not a big fan of California Disneyland, but, yay, we are going to Disneyland!

We don’t have those 5-15% year-end bonuses as many companies do but we feel content to see the company takes care of their employees, and share its story with this big family.

I was overjoyed to see in today’s company quarterly meeting that the executives share their stories with lynda.com and the evolution of this company from baby steps back in Ojai.

It was quite a retrospection. Back 4 years ago we only had 36 employees, and in this past quarterly, only, we hired 25 more new people. We used to have one building in Ojai, where the company started. And now we got offices in Carpinteria, Ventura, Calabasas, London, expanding like crazy.

Some quotes from the Quarterly:

“You never know what you gonna get.”

“Scrum: empower people, allow them to make decisions, allow them to fail.”

“Build people who can see them building their career levels.”

And I truly love the “great people”, the “passion”, and the “persistence” around here. I am proud to work for a company that takes care of its employees and for a product that members love. There is nothing more rewarding than building a product that people love and are willing to spread the word.

Funny to see a twit shared at the meeting: “just got my lynda.com account, now my to-do list is infinite now.” Shame on me not really utilizing the complimentary content I got for free. And yes, my to-do list is infinite too!