Reply #1: Change companies' compassion?

[Lasher]

Wake up, US companies have zero compassion for their employees - unless you're in senior management, of course.

Today's movement from one company to another is something that was promoted by corporations 2 or 3 decades ago when they started robbing us of our defined benefit pensions and converting them to less lucrative cash balance plans. "See, your pension is portable now," they said. "That's what today's mobile employee wants." Then they helped us get even more mobile by 'right-sizing' many of us involuntarily off the payroll and doubling the workloads of survivors. Unpaid overtime was a given.

Somewhere along the line employees finally realized that loyalty is a one way street for US corporations: They expect to get it but if you as an employee have the gall to expect such a thing from your employer, then you have an 'entitlement attitude' or some other sinister personal failing. Today's employee mobility is a symptom of exactly that, and it's now being bemoaned by companies. You see, they want you to be mobile, but only on their terms.

I worked for a major corporation for a long time, until they offered an early retirement incentive a few years ago. Senior management was surprised that so many of us took the package, many more of us than they wanted or expected. They resented us for it. We were ungrateful for having left our benevolent masters before they were ready to fire us. Too bad, so sad.