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Staff Risk

Talent Retention

  • Finance organisations are great at attracting talent by simply paying very high wages. The problem is attrition.
  • It's important to understand that lots of open source is developed for non-financial rewards.
  • If you hire a key engineer who is a top contributor to an open source project then you are preventing them from contributing anymore. They will leave.
  • Even if you allow them to continue contributing, but the workflow is onerous (e.g. MD-level reviews of their code) they will also get fed up and leave.
  • To retain these high-performing staff, you have to give them the right tools to carry on contributing effectively.
  • GitHub is becoming a CV.