{"id":828,"date":"2008-05-31T02:35:18","date_gmt":"2008-05-31T07:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=828"},"modified":"2008-05-31T02:35:18","modified_gmt":"2008-05-31T07:35:18","slug":"motivation-pay-new-employees-to-quit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/05\/31\/motivation-pay-new-employees-to-quit","title":{"rendered":"Motivation: pay new employees to quit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is an interesting way to motivate your employees: <a href=\"http:\/\/discussionleader.hbsp.com\/taylor\/2008\/05\/wy_zappos_pays_new_employees_t.html\">pay new employees to quit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zappos.com\/about.zhtml\">Zappos sells shoes online<\/a>. Their new employee hiring process? Spend a month getting trained, and immersed on the company&#8217;s culture, strategy and its obsession with customers, and at the end of it all, ask if people want to quit, plus give them a $1,000 bonus to do so. Why?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Shows one&#8217;s commitment level to the company<\/li>\n<li>This way you&#8217;ll keep the most motivated employees around<\/li>\n<li>Some people may have signed up for the job, and after a month&#8217;s training realise, that its not for them&#8230; Its an easy exit path<\/li>\n<li>Keep employees engaged<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Zappos only loses about 10% of their new employees this way. And they&#8217;re all the better. The leaving bonus started at $100, moved up to $500, and now its $1,000 (they will increase this as the company expands). They are large &#8211; 1,600 employees and growing.<\/p>\n<p>From what I gather, they have a very <em>connected<\/em> culture&#8230; Their CEO has a blog, most of their employees are on Twitter, and they really are obsessed with customers &#8211; read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zazlamarr.com\/blog\/?p=240\">I Heart Zappos<\/a>. This is Customer Relationship Management 2.0!<\/p>\n<p>Definitely a thing or two to learn from the way Zappos operates. From a business perspective, it just goes to show that while it might have made sense to sell books online (Amazon), it also definitely makes sense to sell personal items like shoes (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zappos.com\/\">Zappos<\/a>) and designer clothing (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.net-a-porter.com\/intl\/Home.ice\">Net-a-porter<\/a>) online too. Items that one might think are <em>too personal<\/em> to buy at the click of a button&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an interesting way to motivate your employees: pay new employees to quit. Zappos sells shoes online. Their new employee hiring process? 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