Secret: Why does the boss prefer to recruit new people at a high price rather than raise your salary to keep you?
In the workplace, there is indeed a phenomenon of "jumping higher and higher". People with high wages are not raised step by step, but suddenly airborne. Step by step, step by step, it's not as fast as job-hopping. Recently, a friend complained to me that their company severely increased the salary standard for new recruits because they could not recruit people, and announced to the public: the introduction of high-level talent plan.
Old employees have worked hard for several years, and their wages are only 7,000, while new employees can get more than 10,000 as soon as they join. At this time, the old employees could not sit still, and sent representatives to ask for a salary increase, but they were dismissed by the company. In protest, a group submitted their resignation to the company collectively. The company still took it lightly, thinking it was nothing more than a threat.
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The next day, no one in the group came to work, and the upper levels were really panicked. Called one by one to pull people back, but unfortunately, all were rejected. Realizing the seriousness of the problem, the upper management held a temporary meeting and expressed their willingness to increase the number to 8,000 for the old employees. This is good. The one who left did not come back. Instead, several groups submitted resignation letters. In less than half a month, the company with more than 300 people has only more than 80 people left.
Many people don't understand: Why is the boss so stubborn and would rather recruit new people at high prices than keep old employees with a salary increase? Generally speaking, there are two reasons.
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- The company has higher expectations for new employees ========================================================
When everyone interviews, they will pack themselves very well. It is difficult for the company to determine the specific ability of the interviewee through the interview. This is why there is a utility period, however, the utility period of one month is very short and it is difficult to expose the problem. The company is already familiar with the old employees, and knows how much the old employees can bring to the company at most. Therefore, companies always have more expectations for new employees who perform well, and are willing to recruit new employees with more salary.
- Raising the salary of old employees is easy to cause a personnel earthquake ==============================================================================
If an employee is very capable, the company is more willing to encourage it with bonuses rather than raises. why? Because giving a salary increase to an old employee often means giving all old employees a salary increase, otherwise other old employees will become emotional and even resign. The resignation of a core old employee is no less than a personnel earthquake. For such a high price, the company is unwilling to bear.
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Wages are going to go up anyway. Instead of raising them all at once, it is better to spend high prices and recruit capable new employees to slowly increase them. The company calculates the personnel cost very clearly. If the old employees are highly replaceable, the company does not care whether you leave or not, anyway, a better replacement can be found at any time; if the old employees are irreplaceable, then the company will naturally not let you go, and you have long been considered in the salary increase queue .
If you've been with the company for years and your salary hasn't gone up, it's possible that you're still fungible. The most important thing is to hurry up to improve the ability. As long as the ability is strong enough, there will definitely be some salary.