Facing high employee turnover and no idea why? There are many reasons why employees leave: too heavy a workload, lack of career advancement or promotion opportunities, or even unrealistic job expectations. In fact, many of the reasons cited by employees when they leave are down to factors you can actually control. It adds up. MORE >>

To employers: Don’t assume employee loyalty is a given. You have to work on a continuous basis to earn the trust and loyalty of employees. To employees: Don’t go into a job assuming the worst, but don’t give of yourself beyond what is reasonable. Personal Development business employee loyalty MORE >>

Joel Spolsky , c0-founder and CEO of our portfolio company Stack Exchange , posted an excellent answer to the question in the title of this post on the Stack site OnStartups. I'm not going to reblog the entire answer here. I'd encourage you to go read Joel's answer. go read Joel's answer to understand how he sets up these layers]. MORE >>

I was asked by a reader how much equity he should give out to early employees and to service providers in a very early stage startup. Founders vs. Early Employees To help with this discussion, let me start with a definition of "early employee." Of course, all of that assumes that the early employee does make an impact. MORE >>

But the conventional wisdom is that employees work for money, above all else. They assert that employees value having strong leaders, who incent them to do their best, just as much if not more than money. Your employees have just helped you pull your company through one of the nation's worst economic periods. Act with integrity. MORE >>