[AlexC04]

You don't feel this is a strong argument in favor of the de-regulation of minimum wage? Freeing businesses from the growth stifing yoke of employee voluntary attrition?

/s

Ughh... reading this is ridiculous. Do we think bankers' salaries prevent them from staying at banks? Doesn't the first sentence answer the question of what really happened?

     > For the past year, Google's car project has been
     > a talent sieve, thanks to leadership changes,
     > strategy doubts, new startup dreams and rivals
     > luring self-driving technology experts. 

Poor leadership & competition. Easy to point fingers elsewhere, but everything we know about motivation says that autonomy, making a difference and a whole host of other "soft reasons" are the factors that drive it forward.

The people who left didn't STOP working on self driving cars. So they still love the work and are engaged by the dream of doing that. So theoretically - if Google had adapted to their needs & wants they could have retained the employees. Instead poor leadership drove them out the door.

[no_wave]

But the anonymous sources are saying that the only problem was that Google was too generous. Clearly we should believe them at face value.